If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bentley We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Bentley
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Bentley Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Bentley
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Bentley It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Bentley
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Bentley "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Bentley
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Bentley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Bentley
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Bentley MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Bentley
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Bentley Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Bentley
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 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 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Bentley "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Bentley
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Bentley Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker .. 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
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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "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 "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Bentley "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Bentley
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Bentley "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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