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"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Girton "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Girton
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 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Girton Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Girton
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Girton I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Girton
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Girton 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 reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Girton
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Girton A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Girton
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Girton Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Girton
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Girton This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Girton
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Girton Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Girton
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Girton Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Girton
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "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) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Girton "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Girton
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Girton If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Girton
