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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Neston "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Neston
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Neston 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 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Neston
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 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Neston My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Neston
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Neston I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Neston
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Neston Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Neston
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Neston There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Neston
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Neston You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Neston
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Neston To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Neston
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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Neston When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Neston
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Neston "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Neston
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Neston Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Neston
