We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford 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 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Kingswood Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Kingswood
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Kingswood I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Kingswood
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Kingswood Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Kingswood
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Kingswood "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kingswood
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Kingswood Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Kingswood
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Kingswood Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Kingswood
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Kingswood "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Kingswood
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Kingswood Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Kingswood
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Kingswood Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Kingswood
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Kingswood A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Kingswood
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Kingswood Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Kingswood
