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Local Sunday Newspapers - Publishers of Bedfordshire on Sunday, Luton and Dunstable on Sunday and Leighton Buzzard on Sunday.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin News and Media A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson News and Media "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) News and Media
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous News and Media 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 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 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) News and Media
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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) News and Media Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) News and Media
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "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) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey News and Media We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) News and Media
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan News and Media God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert News and Media
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt News and Media Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli News and Media
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde News and Media What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason News and Media
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 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 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. News and Media "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning News and Media
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last News and Media "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous News and Media
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings News and Media your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. News and Media
