The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi 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 Bidborough "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Bidborough
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Bidborough The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Bidborough
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 It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Bidborough I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Bidborough
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Bidborough "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Bidborough
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bidborough I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Bidborough
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Bidborough If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Bidborough
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Bidborough "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Bidborough
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Bidborough We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Bidborough
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Bidborough "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Bidborough
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Bidborough Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Bidborough
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "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) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Bidborough You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Bidborough
