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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Burnham-on-Crouch My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Burnham-on-Crouch
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Burnham-on-Crouch "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Burnham-on-Crouch
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Burnham-on-Crouch If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Burnham-on-Crouch
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Burnham-on-Crouch The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Burnham-on-Crouch
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Burnham-on-Crouch "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Burnham-on-Crouch
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Burnham-on-Crouch I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Burnham-on-Crouch
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Burnham-on-Crouch You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Burnham-on-Crouch
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Burnham-on-Crouch "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Burnham-on-Crouch
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Burnham-on-Crouch "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 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 Burnham-on-Crouch
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "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) 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 Burnham-on-Crouch May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burnham-on-Crouch
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Burnham-on-Crouch We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Burnham-on-Crouch
