"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Great Missenden Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "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) Great Missenden
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Great Missenden A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Great Missenden
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Great Missenden If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Great Missenden
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Great Missenden The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Great Missenden
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Great Missenden You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Great Missenden
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Great Missenden "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Great Missenden
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, 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 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Great Missenden To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Great Missenden
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Great Missenden My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Great Missenden
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Great Missenden Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Great Missenden
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Man and wife make one fool. Great Missenden "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Great Missenden
"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) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Great Missenden If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Great Missenden
