The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Sandown Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Sandown
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Sandown "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Sandown
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Sandown Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Sandown
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Sandown May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Sandown
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Sandown 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 man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Sandown
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Sandown Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sandown
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 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Sandown The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Sandown
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Sandown The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sandown
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Sandown Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Sandown
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Sandown Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Sandown
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "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) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Sandown "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sandown
