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Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop East Hoathly It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW East Hoathly
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming 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 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle East Hoathly Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake East Hoathly
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers East Hoathly Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses East Hoathly
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes East Hoathly "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and East Hoathly
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed East Hoathly Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup East Hoathly
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "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) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche East Hoathly 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi East Hoathly
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous East Hoathly What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige East Hoathly
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins East Hoathly "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies East Hoathly
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) East Hoathly It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine East Hoathly
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt East Hoathly "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. East Hoathly
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz East Hoathly Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. East Hoathly
