It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Yarmouth The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Yarmouth
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Yarmouth "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Yarmouth
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Yarmouth Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Yarmouth
"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) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Yarmouth A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Yarmouth
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Yarmouth Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Yarmouth
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Yarmouth The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Yarmouth
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Yarmouth In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Yarmouth
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Yarmouth At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Yarmouth
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Yarmouth We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Yarmouth
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Yarmouth Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Yarmouth
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Yarmouth "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Yarmouth
