"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Biddenham You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Biddenham
"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) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Biddenham The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Biddenham
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Biddenham However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Biddenham
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. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Biddenham A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Biddenham
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Biddenham Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Biddenham
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Biddenham In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biddenham
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Biddenham My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Biddenham
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Biddenham As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Biddenham
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Biddenham "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Biddenham
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Biddenham Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Biddenham
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Biddenham "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Biddenham
