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If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Fareham Borough Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Fareham Borough
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Fareham Borough "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Fareham Borough
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Fareham Borough Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Fareham Borough
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Fareham Borough "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "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) Fareham Borough
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Fareham Borough Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain 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 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Fareham Borough
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Fareham Borough "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Fareham Borough
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "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) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Fareham Borough Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 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. Fareham Borough
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Fareham Borough Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Fareham Borough
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Fareham Borough Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Fareham Borough
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Fareham Borough If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Fareham Borough
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Fareham Borough Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein >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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Fareham Borough
