The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) North Dorset District If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder North Dorset District
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous North Dorset District All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game 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 North Dorset District
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte North Dorset District Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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 North Dorset District
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali North Dorset District Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues North Dorset District
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi North Dorset District "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery North Dorset District
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous North Dorset District Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller North Dorset District
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T North Dorset District "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt North Dorset District
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Dorset District When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. North Dorset District
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words 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 blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel North Dorset District "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) North Dorset District
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb North Dorset District My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward North Dorset District
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Dorset District Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin North Dorset District
