"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 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Torquay Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Torquay
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden 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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Torquay "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "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) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Torquay
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Torquay We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Torquay
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Torquay Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Torquay
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Torquay The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Torquay
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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Torquay The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Torquay
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Torquay "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Torquay
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Torquay 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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Torquay
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Torquay Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Torquay
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Torquay Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Torquay
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "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) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Torquay Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Torquay
