Ferret Publications - Produces collections of English traditional songs. Details of books, and online samples.
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children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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-- Albert Einstein I could prove God statistically.
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-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Publishers
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
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- Plato In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Countess of Blessington Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Publishers He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Publishers
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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-- P. J Publishers It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Publishers
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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-- Fran Lebowitz The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Publishers The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Publishers
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Publishers I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Publishers
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde Publishers All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Publishers
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
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-- Billy Joel Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Publishers The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Publishers
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
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-- Robert Briffault God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
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- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Publishers I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Publishers
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
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-- Russell Baker Publishers Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
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-- H. L. Mencken Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Publishers
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
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- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Publishers There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
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-- George Bernard Shaw "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Publishers
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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. He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Publishers Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
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-- Harry Truman Publishers
