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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain 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 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Havant Borough Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck 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 When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Havant Borough
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Havant Borough "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Havant Borough
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Havant Borough Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Havant Borough
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Havant Borough The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Havant Borough
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Havant Borough When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Havant Borough
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Havant Borough Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Havant Borough
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Havant Borough Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Havant Borough
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Havant Borough The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Havant Borough
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Havant Borough "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Havant Borough
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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Havant Borough "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Havant Borough
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Havant Borough Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Havant Borough
