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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Compton Abbas If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Compton Abbas
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Compton Abbas As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Compton Abbas
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Compton Abbas "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 Compton Abbas
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Compton Abbas When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Compton Abbas
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Compton Abbas In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Compton Abbas
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Compton Abbas Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Compton Abbas
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Compton Abbas "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Compton Abbas The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Compton Abbas
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Compton Abbas "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Compton Abbas
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Compton Abbas Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
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Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Compton Abbas Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Compton Abbas
