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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 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Duxford "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Duxford
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Duxford If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Duxford
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "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) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Duxford A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Duxford
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Duxford One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Duxford
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Duxford "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Duxford
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Duxford "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Duxford
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Duxford If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Duxford
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Duxford 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. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Duxford
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Duxford The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Duxford
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Duxford "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Duxford
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Duxford The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
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