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-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Knotting and Souldrop The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Knotting and Souldrop
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Knotting and Souldrop Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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" The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Knotting and Souldrop
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Knotting and Souldrop The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. Knotting and Souldrop
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Knotting and Souldrop "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Knotting and Souldrop
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Knotting and Souldrop Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Knotting and Souldrop
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Knotting and Souldrop Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Knotting and Souldrop
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Knotting and Souldrop It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Knotting and Souldrop
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Knotting and Souldrop Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner 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 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Knotting and Souldrop
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Knotting and Souldrop In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Knotting and Souldrop
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Knotting and Souldrop Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Knotting and Souldrop
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan 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 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Knotting and Souldrop "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Knotting and Souldrop
