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"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Coleshill We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone 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 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Coleshill
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Coleshill The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Coleshill
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Coleshill For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Coleshill
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Coleshill An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Coleshill
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Coleshill A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "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 Coleshill
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Coleshill There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Coleshill
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Coleshill Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Coleshill
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Coleshill We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Coleshill
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Coleshill Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Coleshill
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Coleshill You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Coleshill
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Coleshill "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Coleshill
