To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Middlesbrough True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo 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 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Middlesbrough
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Middlesbrough Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Middlesbrough
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Middlesbrough Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Middlesbrough
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Middlesbrough Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Middlesbrough
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Middlesbrough Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Middlesbrough
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Middlesbrough Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Middlesbrough
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Middlesbrough Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Middlesbrough
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman 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 If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Middlesbrough Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Middlesbrough
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and 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 Middlesbrough A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Middlesbrough
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Middlesbrough I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Middlesbrough
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Middlesbrough Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Middlesbrough
