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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Finchampstead "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Finchampstead
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Finchampstead Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Finchampstead
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "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) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Finchampstead I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Finchampstead
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Finchampstead Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Finchampstead
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Finchampstead "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Finchampstead
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Finchampstead All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Finchampstead
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Finchampstead Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige 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 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Finchampstead
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Finchampstead "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "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) Finchampstead
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Finchampstead Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Finchampstead
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Finchampstead History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Finchampstead
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Finchampstead If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Finchampstead
