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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Abbotskerswell "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Abbotskerswell
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Abbotskerswell Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Abbotskerswell We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Abbotskerswell
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Abbotskerswell Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Abbotskerswell
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "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) 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 Abbotskerswell 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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Abbotskerswell
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Abbotskerswell "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Abbotskerswell
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Abbotskerswell When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Abbotskerswell
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Abbotskerswell Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Abbotskerswell
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Abbotskerswell Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Abbotskerswell
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Abbotskerswell In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Abbotskerswell
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Abbotskerswell Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Abbotskerswell
