Billing, Robert - Personal homepage of a graduate of the University of Cambridge, who is a software engineer and practising christian.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Personal Pages Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Personal Pages
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Personal Pages The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Personal Pages
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Personal Pages The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Personal Pages
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Personal Pages I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Personal Pages
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Personal Pages Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Personal Pages
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Personal Pages
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Personal Pages Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Personal Pages
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Personal Pages "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Personal Pages
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Personal Pages "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Personal Pages
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 Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Personal Pages The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Personal Pages
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Personal Pages A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Personal Pages
