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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 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Great Totham Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Great Totham
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Great Totham Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Great Totham
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Great Totham "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) 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 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Great Totham
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Great Totham The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Great Totham
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Great Totham There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "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) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Great Totham
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "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') If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Great Totham Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Great Totham
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Great Totham It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Great Totham
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Great Totham If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Great Totham
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Great Totham The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Great Totham
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Great Totham Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Great Totham
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Great Totham The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Great Totham
