Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Telscombe Cliffs When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Telscombe Cliffs
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Telscombe Cliffs The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Telscombe Cliffs
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) 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 Telscombe Cliffs Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Telscombe Cliffs
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Telscombe Cliffs The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Telscombe Cliffs
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Telscombe Cliffs "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) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Telscombe Cliffs
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Telscombe Cliffs Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Telscombe Cliffs
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Telscombe Cliffs A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Telscombe Cliffs
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Telscombe Cliffs We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Telscombe Cliffs
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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Telscombe Cliffs I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Telscombe Cliffs
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "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) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Telscombe Cliffs "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Telscombe Cliffs
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Telscombe Cliffs 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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Telscombe Cliffs
