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If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Droxford The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Droxford
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 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Droxford If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Droxford
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Droxford Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Droxford
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Droxford Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Droxford
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 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Droxford "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Droxford
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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 Droxford "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Droxford
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Droxford Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Droxford
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Droxford You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Droxford
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Droxford I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Droxford
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Droxford Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Droxford
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Droxford "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Droxford
