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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Totnes Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Totnes
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Totnes I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Totnes
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Totnes I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Totnes
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "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 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Totnes No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Totnes
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Totnes I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. 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 Totnes
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Totnes "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) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Totnes
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Totnes Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Totnes
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Totnes To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Totnes
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Totnes "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Totnes
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Totnes "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Totnes
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Totnes For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Totnes
