If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Gloucestershire In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Gloucestershire
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Gloucestershire Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Gloucestershire
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Gloucestershire There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Gloucestershire
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Gloucestershire The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Gloucestershire
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Gloucestershire The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Gloucestershire
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Gloucestershire It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Gloucestershire
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Gloucestershire 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 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Gloucestershire
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Gloucestershire Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Gloucestershire
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Gloucestershire Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Gloucestershire
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Gloucestershire 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" "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') I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Gloucestershire
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Gloucestershire Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Gloucestershire
