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You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Westleigh I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Westleigh
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Westleigh The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "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 Westleigh
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Westleigh The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Westleigh
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Westleigh If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Westleigh
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Westleigh "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Westleigh
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Westleigh Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Westleigh
"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) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Westleigh "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Westleigh
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Westleigh It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Westleigh
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Westleigh "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Westleigh
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Westleigh Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
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Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Westleigh Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Westleigh
