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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Pulloxhill Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Pulloxhill
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Pulloxhill "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Pulloxhill
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Pulloxhill "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "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) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Pulloxhill
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Pulloxhill Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Pulloxhill
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Pulloxhill What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Pulloxhill
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Pulloxhill America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Pulloxhill
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Pulloxhill Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Pulloxhill
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Pulloxhill "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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 Pulloxhill
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Pulloxhill 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Pulloxhill
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Pulloxhill All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson 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 Pulloxhill
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Pulloxhill Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Pulloxhill
