Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac 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 Sedgefield District "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Sedgefield District
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Sedgefield District The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Sedgefield District People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Sedgefield District
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Sedgefield District Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Sedgefield District "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Sedgefield District
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Sedgefield District The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Sedgefield District
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Sedgefield District The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Sedgefield District
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Sedgefield District Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Sedgefield District
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Sedgefield District Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Sedgefield District
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Sedgefield District Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Sedgefield District
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Sedgefield District One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Sedgefield District
