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Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Qormi Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Qormi
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Qormi Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Qormi
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Qormi Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Qormi
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Qormi The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Qormi
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Qormi I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Qormi
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Qormi We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Qormi
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Qormi No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Qormi
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Qormi Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels 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 Qormi
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Qormi The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Qormi
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Qormi Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Qormi
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Qormi Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "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) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Qormi
