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Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Alresford blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Alresford
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Alresford The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Alresford
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Alresford My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. 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) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Alresford
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope 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 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Alresford You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Alresford
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Alresford Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Alresford
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Alresford The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Alresford
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Alresford I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Alresford
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Alresford I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Alresford
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Alresford Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Alresford
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Alresford Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Alresford
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "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 Alresford blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Alresford
