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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Portsmouth Unitary Authority 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 A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Portsmouth Unitary Authority
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Portsmouth Unitary Authority "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Portsmouth Unitary Authority
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Portsmouth Unitary Authority People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy 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.
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"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Portsmouth Unitary Authority I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Portsmouth Unitary Authority
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Portsmouth Unitary Authority A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Portsmouth Unitary Authority
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Portsmouth Unitary Authority I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Portsmouth Unitary Authority
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Portsmouth Unitary Authority Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Portsmouth Unitary Authority
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Portsmouth Unitary Authority An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Portsmouth Unitary Authority You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 Portsmouth Unitary Authority
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "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) 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 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Portsmouth Unitary Authority We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "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) 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
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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Portsmouth Unitary Authority I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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