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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Sutton Upon Derwent It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Sutton Upon Derwent
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Sutton Upon Derwent "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sutton Upon Derwent Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Sutton Upon Derwent
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Sutton Upon Derwent After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Sutton Upon Derwent
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Sutton Upon Derwent "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Sutton Upon Derwent Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Sutton Upon Derwent
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Sutton Upon Derwent The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Sutton Upon Derwent Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
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"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Sutton Upon Derwent "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Sutton Upon Derwent
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Sutton Upon Derwent "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Sutton Upon Derwent
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Sutton Upon Derwent "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
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