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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Programmes Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Programmes
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "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) Programmes "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "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) Programmes
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Programmes Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Programmes
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Programmes "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Programmes
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Programmes Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Programmes
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Programmes Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Programmes
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Programmes 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 Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Programmes
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell 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 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Programmes "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Programmes
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Programmes Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Programmes
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Programmes A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Programmes
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Programmes I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Programmes
