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-- Victor Hugo And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
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-- Garry Trudeau Portesham Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
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-- Albert Einstein An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous 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 Portesham
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Portesham Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Portesham
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Portesham I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Portesham
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Portesham "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
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-- Benjamin Tillett Portesham
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Portesham Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Portesham
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Portesham A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Portesham
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Portesham I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Portesham
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Portesham The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Portesham
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Portesham The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Portesham
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Portesham 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 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Portesham
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Portesham I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Portesham
