Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Lidlington "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Lidlington
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Lidlington Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Lidlington
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Lidlington History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Lidlington
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Lidlington Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Lidlington
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm 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 "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) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Lidlington To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Lidlington
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lidlington If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Lidlington
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lidlington Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Lidlington
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Lidlington We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Lidlington
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Lidlington Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Lidlington
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming 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 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Lidlington True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Lidlington
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Lidlington Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Lidlington
