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"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Shillington Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Shillington
Marriage is a rest period between romances. "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Shillington You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Shillington
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Shillington Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Shillington
"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) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Shillington "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Shillington
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Shillington Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Shillington
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 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 Shillington "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Shillington
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Shillington The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Shillington
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Shillington We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Shillington
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "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) Shillington Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Shillington
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Shillington "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Shillington
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "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) Shillington Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Shillington
