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"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Honiton We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honiton
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Honiton "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Honiton
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Honiton Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Honiton
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Honiton Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Honiton
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Honiton blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Honiton
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Honiton When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Honiton
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honiton Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Honiton
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Honiton In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Honiton
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Honiton 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Honiton
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Honiton Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Honiton
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Honiton The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Honiton
