The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Rowlands Castle 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 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Rowlands Castle
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Rowlands Castle The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Rowlands Castle
"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 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Rowlands Castle "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Rowlands Castle
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Rowlands Castle When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Rowlands Castle
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Rowlands Castle Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Rowlands Castle A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Rowlands Castle
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Rowlands Castle Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Rowlands Castle
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Rowlands Castle Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Rowlands Castle
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Rowlands Castle There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Rowlands Castle
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "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 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Rowlands Castle When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Rowlands Castle
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni 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 Rowlands Castle The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Rowlands Castle
