I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich 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 I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Runcorn Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Runcorn
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Runcorn "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Runcorn
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Runcorn The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Runcorn
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Runcorn The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Runcorn
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Runcorn Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 Runcorn
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Runcorn He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Runcorn
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting 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 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Runcorn Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Runcorn
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Runcorn Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Runcorn
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Runcorn Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "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 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Runcorn
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Marriage is a rest period between romances. Runcorn 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 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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Runcorn
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Runcorn "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Runcorn
