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"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 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop East Dorset District >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle East Dorset District
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 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa East Dorset District "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein East Dorset District
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery East Dorset District All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) East Dorset District
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait 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 East Dorset District All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld East Dorset District
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt East Dorset District The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. East Dorset District
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) East Dorset District People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) East Dorset District
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin East Dorset District Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune East Dorset District
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides East Dorset District "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 Nietzsche In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein East Dorset District
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle East Dorset District You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks East Dorset District
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 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 Unhappy "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain East Dorset District And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) East Dorset District
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin East Dorset District To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock East Dorset District
