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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Ardfinnan Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Ardfinnan
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Ardfinnan Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Ardfinnan
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ardfinnan I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Ardfinnan
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Ardfinnan Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Ardfinnan
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "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) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Ardfinnan History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Ardfinnan
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Ardfinnan Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Ardfinnan
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Ardfinnan Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "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) Ardfinnan
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Ardfinnan He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Ardfinnan
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Ardfinnan It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Ardfinnan
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Ardfinnan It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Ardfinnan
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Ardfinnan Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Ardfinnan
