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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Ilkeston The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Ilkeston
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Ilkeston "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Ilkeston
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Ilkeston Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Ilkeston
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ilkeston "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Ilkeston
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley 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 Ilkeston The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Ilkeston
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Ilkeston Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Ilkeston
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ilkeston Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ilkeston
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Ilkeston The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Ilkeston
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Ilkeston Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Ilkeston
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Ilkeston "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Ilkeston
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Ilkeston Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Ilkeston
