"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Peterborough Man and wife make one fool. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Peterborough
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Peterborough Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Peterborough
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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Peterborough No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Peterborough
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Peterborough Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Peterborough
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Peterborough No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Peterborough
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President 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 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Peterborough Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Peterborough
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Peterborough The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Peterborough
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Peterborough Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Peterborough
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Peterborough "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 a Peterborough
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Peterborough "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) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Peterborough
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Peterborough Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Peterborough
