The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Newbawn One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Newbawn
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Newbawn "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Newbawn
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Newbawn The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Newbawn
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Man and wife make one fool. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Newbawn 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Newbawn
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Newbawn For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Newbawn
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Newbawn Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Newbawn
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) 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 Unhappy There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Newbawn Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Newbawn
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Newbawn The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Newbawn
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba 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 Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Newbawn No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Newbawn
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 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Newbawn Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Newbawn
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Newbawn "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Newbawn
