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True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Stockton-on-Tees Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Stockton-on-Tees
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Stockton-on-Tees With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Stockton-on-Tees
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Stockton-on-Tees In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
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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 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Stockton-on-Tees >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Stockton-on-Tees
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Stockton-on-Tees Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Stockton-on-Tees
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Stockton-on-Tees "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) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Stockton-on-Tees
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Stockton-on-Tees Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Stockton-on-Tees
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Stockton-on-Tees Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Stockton-on-Tees
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Stockton-on-Tees Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Stockton-on-Tees
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Stockton-on-Tees The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Stockton-on-Tees
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Stockton-on-Tees If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Stockton-on-Tees
