"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 Exeter Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Exeter
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Exeter Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Exeter
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Exeter It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Exeter
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 Exeter Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Exeter
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Exeter Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Exeter
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Exeter You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Exeter
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Exeter If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Exeter
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Exeter Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Exeter
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Exeter Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Exeter
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Exeter Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Exeter
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Exeter We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Exeter
