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"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Lawrencetown Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Lawrencetown
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Lawrencetown UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Lawrencetown
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Lawrencetown "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lawrencetown
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Lawrencetown When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) 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 Lawrencetown
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Lawrencetown Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Lawrencetown
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Lawrencetown Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Lawrencetown
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Lawrencetown "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Lawrencetown
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Lawrencetown "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Lawrencetown
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Lawrencetown Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Lawrencetown
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lawrencetown If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lawrencetown
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Lawrencetown People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Lawrencetown
