"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Framfield Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Framfield
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Framfield When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Framfield
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Framfield "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Framfield
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Framfield "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Framfield
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Framfield A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Framfield
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Framfield There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Framfield
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Framfield 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 had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. My other wife is beautiful. Framfield
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Framfield The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Framfield
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) 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.
-- Framfield Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Framfield
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger 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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Framfield The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Framfield
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) 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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Framfield Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
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