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"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Borough Green A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Borough Green
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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Borough Green Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Borough Green
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Borough Green If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Borough Green
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Borough Green Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Borough Green
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 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Borough Green If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Borough Green
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Borough Green "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Borough Green
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Borough Green "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Borough Green
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Borough Green The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Borough Green
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "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 "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Borough Green Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Borough Green
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Borough Green blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole 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 Borough Green
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Borough Green The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Borough Green
