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I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst St Neots "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein St Neots
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston St Neots To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) St Neots
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. My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) 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 St Neots 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 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau St Neots
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali 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 "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte St Neots Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the St Neots
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 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 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard St Neots Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey St Neots
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne St Neots We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau St Neots
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni St Neots Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous St Neots
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald St Neots "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) St Neots
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple St Neots All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen St Neots
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "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) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 St Neots Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert St Neots
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec St Neots "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett St Neots
