A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Instow "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury 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) Instow
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Instow Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Instow
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Instow To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Instow
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Instow There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Instow
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton 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 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Instow A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Instow
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Instow "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Instow
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Instow Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Instow
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "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 Instow I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Instow
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Instow Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Instow
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. 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 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Instow Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Instow
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Instow There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Instow
