The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Yorkshire Dales "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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 Yorkshire Dales
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Yorkshire Dales Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Yorkshire Dales
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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
successfully "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Yorkshire Dales The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Yorkshire Dales
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Yorkshire Dales Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Yorkshire Dales
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Yorkshire Dales There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Yorkshire Dales
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Yorkshire Dales If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans 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 Yorkshire Dales
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Yorkshire Dales An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Yorkshire Dales
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Yorkshire Dales Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Yorkshire Dales
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Yorkshire Dales Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Yorkshire Dales
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Yorkshire Dales Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Yorkshire Dales
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Yorkshire Dales "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Yorkshire Dales
