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With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Polzeath When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Polzeath
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Polzeath If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Polzeath
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Polzeath The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Polzeath
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Polzeath The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Polzeath
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Polzeath Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Polzeath
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Polzeath Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Polzeath
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Polzeath 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 blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Polzeath
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Polzeath "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Polzeath
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Polzeath "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Polzeath
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Polzeath Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Polzeath
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Polzeath Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Polzeath
