Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Romsey Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Romsey
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Romsey I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Romsey
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Romsey The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Romsey
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Romsey I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Romsey
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 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 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Romsey Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Romsey
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Romsey There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Romsey
"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 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Romsey Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Romsey
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Romsey A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Romsey
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Romsey Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Romsey
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Romsey Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Romsey
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Romsey Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Romsey
