You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Redcar Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Redcar
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Redcar Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Redcar
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Redcar Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Redcar
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Redcar To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Redcar
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Redcar Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Redcar
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Redcar Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Redcar
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Redcar The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Redcar
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Redcar But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Redcar
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex 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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Redcar If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Redcar
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Redcar If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Redcar
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "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) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Redcar I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard 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. Redcar
