Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) South Cambridgeshire District The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, South Cambridgeshire District
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) South Cambridgeshire District 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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) South Cambridgeshire District
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins South Cambridgeshire District People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson South Cambridgeshire District
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau South Cambridgeshire District "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. South Cambridgeshire District
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) South Cambridgeshire District Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg South Cambridgeshire District
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown South Cambridgeshire District I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac South Cambridgeshire District
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) South Cambridgeshire District "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort South Cambridgeshire District
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart South Cambridgeshire District "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) South Cambridgeshire District
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh South Cambridgeshire District May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson South Cambridgeshire District
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce South Cambridgeshire District America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) South Cambridgeshire District
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 South Cambridgeshire District The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White South Cambridgeshire District
