"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Croxley Green The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Croxley Green
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Croxley Green He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Croxley Green
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire 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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Croxley Green My other wife is beautiful. >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Croxley Green
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Croxley Green I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Croxley Green
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Croxley Green Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Croxley Green
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Croxley Green Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Croxley Green
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer 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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Croxley Green I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Croxley Green
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Croxley Green Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Croxley Green
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Croxley Green "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Croxley Green
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Croxley Green Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Croxley Green
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) 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 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Croxley Green "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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