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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Portslade The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Portslade
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Portslade Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Portslade
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Portslade Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Portslade
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Portslade Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Portslade
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Portslade Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Portslade
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Portslade "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Portslade
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Portslade Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Portslade
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Portslade Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Portslade
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Portslade We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Portslade
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Portslade Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Portslade
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Portslade The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Portslade
