"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln By Locality I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. By Locality "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson By Locality
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Locality He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
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Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) By Locality "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham By Locality If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson By Locality
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. By Locality I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein By Locality
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song By Locality I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry By Locality "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein By Locality
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. By Locality Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson By Locality
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) By Locality Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
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Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "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) By Locality Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) By Locality
