He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "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 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi 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 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "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 Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Operation Market-Garden and Arnhem There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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