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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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" 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 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Winterborne Stickland I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Winterborne Stickland
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Winterborne Stickland The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Winterborne Stickland
Man and wife make one fool. Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Winterborne Stickland In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Winterborne Stickland
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Winterborne Stickland When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Winterborne Stickland
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Winterborne Stickland blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Winterborne Stickland
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Winterborne Stickland The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Winterborne Stickland
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Winterborne Stickland There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Winterborne Stickland
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Winterborne Stickland "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Winterborne Stickland
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Winterborne Stickland "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Winterborne Stickland
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Winterborne Stickland The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Winterborne Stickland
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Winterborne Stickland Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Winterborne Stickland
