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Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Southampton Unitary Authority Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Southampton Unitary Authority
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Southampton Unitary Authority It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Southampton Unitary Authority
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Southampton Unitary Authority Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Southampton Unitary Authority
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Southampton Unitary Authority "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Southampton Unitary Authority
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Southampton Unitary Authority The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Southampton Unitary Authority
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Southampton Unitary Authority "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Southampton Unitary Authority
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Southampton Unitary Authority The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Southampton Unitary Authority
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Southampton Unitary Authority 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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Southampton Unitary Authority
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Southampton Unitary Authority "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Southampton Unitary Authority
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Southampton Unitary Authority None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Southampton Unitary Authority
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Southampton Unitary Authority "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) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Southampton Unitary Authority
