"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Ashford Borough Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Ashford Borough
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Ashford Borough And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Ashford Borough
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Ashford Borough When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Ashford Borough
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Ashford Borough 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 What's new? Most of my wife. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Ashford Borough
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Ashford Borough When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Ashford Borough
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Ashford Borough Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Ashford Borough
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Ashford Borough Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "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) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Ashford Borough
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Ashford Borough Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Ashford Borough
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown 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 "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) Ashford Borough When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Ashford Borough
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Ashford Borough Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Ashford Borough
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ashford Borough Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Ashford Borough
