What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen 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? It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone GCSE Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) GCSE
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) GCSE 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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince GCSE "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous GCSE
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau GCSE Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki GCSE
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci GCSE We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell GCSE
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) GCSE Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) GCSE
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) GCSE Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion GCSE
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield 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 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 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 GCSE You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane GCSE
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers GCSE The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali GCSE
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick GCSE The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou GCSE
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa GCSE Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry GCSE
