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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Corringham "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Corringham
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Corringham "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Corringham
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "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) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Corringham You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Corringham
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Corringham Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Corringham
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Corringham Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Corringham
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Corringham I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Corringham
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Corringham Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Corringham
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Corringham A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Corringham
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 Corringham 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Corringham
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Corringham You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "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) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Corringham
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Corringham MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Corringham
