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All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack North Cornwall A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster North Cornwall
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz 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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting North Cornwall 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" "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and North Cornwall
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks North Cornwall There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) North Cornwall
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln North Cornwall I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) North Cornwall
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) North Cornwall "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt North Cornwall
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux North Cornwall "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe 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 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 North Cornwall
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) North Cornwall Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem 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
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The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer North Cornwall All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein North Cornwall
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W North Cornwall I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous North Cornwall
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide North Cornwall All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "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 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) North Cornwall
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic North Cornwall Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender North Cornwall
