A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Waterbeach Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Waterbeach
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Waterbeach "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Waterbeach
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Waterbeach What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Waterbeach
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Waterbeach "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Waterbeach
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Waterbeach I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Waterbeach
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Waterbeach "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "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) Waterbeach
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Waterbeach Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Waterbeach
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Waterbeach Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Waterbeach
"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) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Waterbeach The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Waterbeach
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Waterbeach "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Waterbeach
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo 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 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Waterbeach "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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