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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin 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 Christchurch Borough People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Christchurch Borough
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Christchurch Borough Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Christchurch Borough
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Christchurch Borough "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Christchurch Borough
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Christchurch Borough "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Christchurch Borough
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Christchurch Borough 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 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Christchurch Borough
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Christchurch Borough What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Christchurch Borough
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Christchurch Borough History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Christchurch Borough
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Christchurch Borough A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Christchurch Borough
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Christchurch Borough "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Christchurch Borough
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Christchurch Borough Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Christchurch Borough
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Christchurch Borough Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Christchurch Borough
