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blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Robertsbridge Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Robertsbridge
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde 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 Robertsbridge "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Robertsbridge
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Robertsbridge Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Robertsbridge
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Robertsbridge "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Robertsbridge
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Robertsbridge If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Robertsbridge
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Robertsbridge Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Robertsbridge
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Robertsbridge Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Robertsbridge
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Robertsbridge Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Robertsbridge
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Robertsbridge blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "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 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Robertsbridge
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler 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 "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Robertsbridge Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Robertsbridge
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Robertsbridge "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Robertsbridge
