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None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Bishop Middleham "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Bishop Middleham
"'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, Through the Looking Glass) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Bishop Middleham The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Bishop Middleham
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "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) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Bishop Middleham "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Bishop Middleham
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Bishop Middleham What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Bishop Middleham
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Bishop Middleham Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Bishop Middleham
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Bishop Middleham 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 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Bishop Middleham
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Bishop Middleham Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Bishop Middleham
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Bishop Middleham They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Bishop Middleham
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Bishop Middleham Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bishop Middleham
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Bishop Middleham "'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, Through the Looking Glass) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Bishop Middleham
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill May you never leave your marriage alive. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Bishop Middleham Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Bishop Middleham
