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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Ledbury "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Ledbury
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Ledbury 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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Ledbury Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Ledbury
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ledbury Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Ledbury
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Ledbury "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Ledbury
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Ledbury "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Ledbury
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Ledbury A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Ledbury
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 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 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 Ledbury Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Ledbury
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Ledbury Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Ledbury
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Ledbury 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 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Ledbury
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Ledbury If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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 Ledbury
