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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Dorset Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Dorset
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Dorset 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 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Dorset
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Dorset To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Dorset
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous 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 A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Dorset Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Dorset
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Dorset The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Dorset
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Dorset "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Dorset
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Dorset Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke 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) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dorset
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Dorset Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Dorset
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Dorset An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Dorset
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Dorset People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Dorset
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Dorset We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Dorset
