'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Bedfordshire To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Bedfordshire
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Bedfordshire "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Bedfordshire
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Bedfordshire "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 I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bedfordshire
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Bedfordshire I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Bedfordshire
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Bedfordshire The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Bedfordshire
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Bedfordshire The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- 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) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Bedfordshire
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Bedfordshire "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Bedfordshire
"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) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Bedfordshire He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Bedfordshire
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Bedfordshire "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Bedfordshire
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Bedfordshire "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Bedfordshire
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Bedfordshire When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. 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 Bedfordshire
