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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 "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Harberton Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Harberton
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Harberton Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Harberton
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Harberton "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Harberton
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Harberton Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Harberton
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Harberton Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Harberton
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Harberton "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Harberton
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Harberton "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Harberton
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Harberton The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Harberton
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Harberton Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Harberton
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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 Harberton The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Harberton
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Harberton "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Harberton
