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Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler East Hampshire District I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper East Hampshire District
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown East Hampshire District Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show East Hampshire District
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood East Hampshire District "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) East Hampshire District
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w East Hampshire District If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) East Hampshire District
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb East Hampshire District "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 East Hampshire District
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) East Hampshire District Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) East Hampshire District
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost East Hampshire District "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 East Hampshire District
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H East Hampshire District My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) East Hampshire District
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell East Hampshire District A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche East Hampshire District
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) East Hampshire District "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) East Hampshire District
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) East Hampshire District "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf East Hampshire District
