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"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Southsea "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Southsea
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Southsea Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin 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 Southsea
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Southsea In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Southsea
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Southsea Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Southsea
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Southsea Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Southsea
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Southsea If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 Southsea
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Southsea I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Southsea
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Southsea Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Southsea
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous 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 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Southsea A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Southsea
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles 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 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Southsea I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Southsea
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Southsea What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Southsea