I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Restormel "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Restormel
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Restormel I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Restormel
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Restormel The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Restormel
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Restormel Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Restormel
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Restormel The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Restormel
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Restormel "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Restormel
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Restormel The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Restormel
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Restormel True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Restormel
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Restormel "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Restormel
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Restormel A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Restormel
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Restormel I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Restormel
