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"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Headford I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Headford
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Spinster: A bachelor's wife. the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Headford "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Headford
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Headford The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Headford
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Headford I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Headford
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Headford "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Headford
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Headford "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Headford
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Headford A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Headford
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Headford In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Headford
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Headford "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Headford
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Headford "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Headford
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Headford "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Headford
