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"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Holmes Chapel "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 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 Holmes Chapel
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Holmes Chapel Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Holmes Chapel
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Holmes Chapel The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Holmes Chapel
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Holmes Chapel It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Holmes Chapel
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Holmes Chapel Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Holmes Chapel
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet 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 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Holmes Chapel 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 If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Holmes Chapel
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Holmes Chapel Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Holmes Chapel
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Holmes Chapel Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Holmes Chapel
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Holmes Chapel Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Holmes Chapel
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Holmes Chapel Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin 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 We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Holmes Chapel
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Holmes Chapel Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Holmes Chapel
