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"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Brenchley Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Brenchley
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Brenchley Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Brenchley
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Brenchley A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Brenchley
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Brenchley Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Brenchley
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Brenchley We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Brenchley
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Brenchley "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) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Brenchley
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Brenchley May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Brenchley
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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Brenchley All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Brenchley
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Brenchley A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Brenchley
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Brenchley blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Brenchley
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Brenchley It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Brenchley
