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To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Royston Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Royston
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Royston "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Royston
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Royston I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Royston
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Royston Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Royston
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Royston I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Royston
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Royston Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Royston
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Royston There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Royston
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Royston I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Royston
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Royston "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Royston
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Royston "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Royston
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Royston The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Royston
