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A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Peterborough Unitary Authority
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Peterborough Unitary Authority When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Peterborough Unitary Authority
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali 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 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "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) Peterborough Unitary Authority Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Peterborough Unitary Authority
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Peterborough Unitary Authority Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Peterborough Unitary Authority
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Peterborough Unitary Authority "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Peterborough Unitary Authority
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Peterborough Unitary Authority The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Peterborough Unitary Authority
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "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) Peterborough Unitary Authority Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Peterborough Unitary Authority
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Peterborough Unitary Authority "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Peterborough Unitary Authority
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Peterborough Unitary Authority Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Peterborough Unitary Authority
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Peterborough Unitary Authority "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Peterborough Unitary Authority
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Peterborough Unitary Authority We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Peterborough Unitary Authority
