"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Flamborough My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Flamborough
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Flamborough Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Flamborough
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Flamborough There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Flamborough
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Flamborough "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Flamborough
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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" Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Flamborough "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Flamborough
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Flamborough In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Flamborough
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Flamborough Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words 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 To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Flamborough
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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 Flamborough Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. 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 Flamborough
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Flamborough Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Flamborough
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Flamborough If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Flamborough
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Flamborough We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Flamborough
