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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Appledore I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Appledore
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Appledore Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Appledore
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Appledore Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Appledore
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Appledore Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Appledore
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Appledore Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Appledore
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Appledore Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Appledore
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Appledore The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Appledore
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Appledore "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Appledore
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Appledore "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Appledore
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Appledore "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Appledore
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Appledore Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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