We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Classifieds "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Classifieds
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Classifieds Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Classifieds
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Classifieds Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Classifieds
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Classifieds Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Classifieds
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Classifieds "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Classifieds
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Classifieds A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Classifieds
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Classifieds When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Classifieds
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Classifieds Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Classifieds
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Classifieds Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Classifieds
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Classifieds The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Classifieds
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Classifieds "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Classifieds
