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"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wheathampstead As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Wheathampstead
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Wheathampstead "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Wheathampstead
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Wheathampstead I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Wheathampstead
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Wheathampstead blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Wheathampstead
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Wheathampstead Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wheathampstead
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Wheathampstead "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Wheathampstead
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Wheathampstead The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Wheathampstead
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Wheathampstead Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Wheathampstead
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Wheathampstead It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness 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 Wheathampstead
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Wheathampstead A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Wheathampstead
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Wheathampstead We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Wheathampstead
