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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Gosport Borough Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Gosport Borough
"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) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Gosport Borough I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Gosport Borough
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Gosport Borough "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Gosport Borough
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gosport Borough Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Gosport Borough
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Gosport Borough In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Gosport Borough
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Gosport Borough Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Gosport Borough
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Gosport Borough When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Gosport Borough
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Gosport Borough "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Gosport Borough
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard 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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Gosport Borough When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Gosport Borough
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Gosport Borough We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Gosport Borough
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Gosport Borough Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Gosport Borough
