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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Leigh-on-Sea Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Leigh-on-Sea
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Leigh-on-Sea Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Leigh-on-Sea
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain 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.
-- Crow Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Leigh-on-Sea Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor 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 Leigh-on-Sea
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Leigh-on-Sea Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Leigh-on-Sea
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Leigh-on-Sea Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Leigh-on-Sea
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Leigh-on-Sea Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Leigh-on-Sea
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "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) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Leigh-on-Sea We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Leigh-on-Sea
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Leigh-on-Sea The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Leigh-on-Sea
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Leigh-on-Sea "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Leigh-on-Sea
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Leigh-on-Sea "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Leigh-on-Sea
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Leigh-on-Sea In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Leigh-on-Sea
