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What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday 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 Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Southampton Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Southampton
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Southampton The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Southampton
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Southampton What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Southampton
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Southampton Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Southampton
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Southampton Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Southampton
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Southampton You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Southampton
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Southampton I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Southampton
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Southampton 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 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Southampton
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Southampton For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Southampton
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Southampton If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Southampton
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Southampton The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Southampton
