The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Eastleigh Borough "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eastleigh Borough
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Eastleigh Borough 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 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Eastleigh Borough
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Eastleigh Borough Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Eastleigh Borough
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Eastleigh Borough "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Eastleigh Borough
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Eastleigh Borough He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Eastleigh Borough
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Eastleigh Borough I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Eastleigh Borough
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Eastleigh Borough 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 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Eastleigh Borough
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Eastleigh Borough A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Eastleigh Borough
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "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 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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? "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Eastleigh Borough "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Eastleigh Borough
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Eastleigh Borough "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Eastleigh Borough
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Eastleigh Borough Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Eastleigh Borough
