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There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Appledore Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Appledore
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Appledore No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Appledore
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Appledore Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Appledore
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Appledore "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Appledore
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Appledore "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Appledore
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Appledore 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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Appledore
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Appledore Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Appledore
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Appledore I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Appledore
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Appledore "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Appledore
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada 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 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) 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 Appledore Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 Appledore
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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Appledore Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Appledore
