The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Godshill God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Godshill
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Godshill The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Godshill
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Godshill Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Godshill
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Godshill If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Godshill
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Godshill Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Godshill
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Godshill There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Godshill
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Godshill I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Godshill
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Godshill Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Godshill
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "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." 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 If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Godshill The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Godshill
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Godshill Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Godshill
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Godshill Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Godshill
