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A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Hamble May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Hamble
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Hamble The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Hamble
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 Hamble Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Hamble
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Hamble Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Hamble
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Hamble If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Hamble
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Man and wife make one fool. I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Hamble One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Hamble
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Hamble In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Hamble
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Hamble Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Hamble
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Hamble Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Hamble
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Hamble Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Hamble
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Hamble 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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Hamble
