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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Salcombe English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Salcombe
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Salcombe Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Salcombe
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) May you never leave your marriage alive. Salcombe "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Salcombe
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Salcombe There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Salcombe
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Salcombe Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Salcombe
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Salcombe "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Salcombe
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Salcombe "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Salcombe
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Salcombe Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Salcombe
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Salcombe "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Salcombe
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Salcombe Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Salcombe
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Salcombe Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Salcombe
