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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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Barrow-in-Furness Borough Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Barrow-in-Furness Borough
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Barrow-in-Furness Borough I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Barrow-in-Furness Borough
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 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 Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Barrow-in-Furness Borough Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Barrow-in-Furness Borough
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "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) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Barrow-in-Furness Borough Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Barrow-in-Furness Borough
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Barrow-in-Furness Borough The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Barrow-in-Furness Borough
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Barrow-in-Furness Borough I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Barrow-in-Furness Borough
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Barrow-in-Furness Borough After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Barrow-in-Furness Borough
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Barrow-in-Furness Borough We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Barrow-in-Furness Borough
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner 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 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Barrow-in-Furness Borough "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Barrow-in-Furness Borough
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Barrow-in-Furness Borough Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Barrow-in-Furness Borough
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Barrow-in-Furness Borough "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Barrow-in-Furness Borough
