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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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Ambleside "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Ambleside
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Ambleside We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Ambleside
"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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Ambleside A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Ambleside
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Ambleside A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Ambleside
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Ambleside I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Ambleside
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Ambleside We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ambleside
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Ambleside The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Ambleside
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Ambleside Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ambleside
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Ambleside blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Ambleside
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Ambleside "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Ambleside
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Ambleside Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Ambleside
