People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Hemel Hempstead "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "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) Hemel Hempstead
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Hemel Hempstead In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Hemel Hempstead
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Hemel Hempstead "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Hemel Hempstead
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Hemel Hempstead Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Hemel Hempstead
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Hemel Hempstead blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Hemel Hempstead
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Hemel Hempstead "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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 Hemel Hempstead
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Hemel Hempstead "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Hemel Hempstead
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Hemel Hempstead "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Hemel Hempstead
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Hemel Hempstead You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "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) Hemel Hempstead
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hemel Hempstead Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Hemel Hempstead
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hemel Hempstead It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Hemel Hempstead
