What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Basingstoke and Deane Borough The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Basingstoke and Deane Borough
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Basingstoke and Deane Borough Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Basingstoke and Deane Borough
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Basingstoke and Deane Borough There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Basingstoke and Deane Borough
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Basingstoke and Deane Borough 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 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Basingstoke and Deane Borough
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Basingstoke and Deane Borough I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Basingstoke and Deane Borough
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Basingstoke and Deane Borough Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Basingstoke and Deane Borough
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Basingstoke and Deane Borough I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Basingstoke and Deane Borough
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Basingstoke and Deane Borough The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Basingstoke and Deane Borough
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Basingstoke and Deane Borough Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Basingstoke and Deane Borough
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Basingstoke and Deane Borough Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Basingstoke and Deane Borough
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Basingstoke and Deane Borough A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Basingstoke and Deane Borough
