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Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Ravenglass One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "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) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Ravenglass "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Ravenglass
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Ravenglass The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Ravenglass
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Ravenglass Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Ravenglass
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Ravenglass The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Ravenglass
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 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Ravenglass The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Ravenglass
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Ravenglass Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Ravenglass
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Ravenglass "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Ravenglass
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Ravenglass "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Ravenglass
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Ravenglass If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ravenglass
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Ravenglass Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Ravenglass
