"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Little Clacton Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Little Clacton
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Little Clacton Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Little Clacton
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Little Clacton Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Little Clacton
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Little Clacton "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Little Clacton
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Little Clacton Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Little Clacton
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson 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 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Little Clacton No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Little Clacton
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Little Clacton When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Little Clacton
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Little Clacton I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Little Clacton
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Little Clacton 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, A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Little Clacton
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Little Clacton "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Little Clacton
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Little Clacton "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Little Clacton