"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Bexhill on Sea Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 Bexhill on Sea
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Bexhill on Sea There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Bexhill on Sea
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Bexhill on Sea I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Bexhill on Sea
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Bexhill on Sea Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Bexhill on Sea
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Bexhill on Sea I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Bexhill on Sea
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge 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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Bexhill on Sea blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Bexhill on Sea
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Bexhill on Sea We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Bexhill on Sea
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell 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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Bexhill on Sea 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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Bexhill on Sea
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Bexhill on Sea A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Bexhill on Sea
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Bexhill on Sea Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Bexhill on Sea
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Bexhill on Sea "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner What's new? Most of my wife. Bexhill on Sea
