"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Self-Catering The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Self-Catering
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Self-Catering "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Self-Catering
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Self-Catering "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Self-Catering
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Self-Catering The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Self-Catering
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Self-Catering Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Self-Catering
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Self-Catering A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Self-Catering
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Self-Catering "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Self-Catering
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Self-Catering If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury 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, Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Self-Catering
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Self-Catering Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Self-Catering
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 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Self-Catering "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Self-Catering
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Self-Catering "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Self-Catering
