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Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
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-- William Shakespeare He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Holland-on-Sea
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family does too.
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enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Holland-on-Sea The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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may Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Holland-on-Sea
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Holland-on-Sea As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "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) Holland-on-Sea
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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bre The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Holland-on-Sea Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Holland-on-Sea
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Holland-on-Sea "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Holland-on-Sea
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Holland-on-Sea If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Holland-on-Sea
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Holland-on-Sea I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Holland-on-Sea
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "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) Holland-on-Sea "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Holland-on-Sea
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 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 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Holland-on-Sea Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Holland-on-Sea
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Holland-on-Sea The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Holland-on-Sea
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Holland-on-Sea I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Holland-on-Sea
