The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado East Sussex Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan East Sussex
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus East Sussex "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham East Sussex
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 East Sussex Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils East Sussex
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) 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.
- Galileo Galilei I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. East Sussex God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H East Sussex
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. East Sussex The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett East Sussex
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams East Sussex "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright East Sussex
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards East Sussex "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx East Sussex
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius East Sussex "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi East Sussex
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) East Sussex I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) East Sussex
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates East Sussex Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes East Sussex
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet East Sussex "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) East Sussex
