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"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker South Molton Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal South Molton
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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optic Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) South Molton "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) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
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-- Frank Zappa "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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-- Oscar Wilde South Molton "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain South Molton
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra South Molton Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
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"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
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-- George Bernard Shaw South Molton The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
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-- Edward P. Tryon God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
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-- Benjamin Tillett South Molton
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg South Molton That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis South Molton
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein South Molton All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson South Molton
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung South Molton When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald South Molton
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb South Molton I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) South Molton
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th South Molton It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre South Molton
