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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Broadstairs 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 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Broadstairs
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Broadstairs A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Broadstairs
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Broadstairs The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Broadstairs
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Broadstairs The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 Broadstairs
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Broadstairs "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Broadstairs
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Broadstairs Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Broadstairs
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Broadstairs The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Broadstairs
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Broadstairs Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Broadstairs
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Broadstairs "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Broadstairs
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Broadstairs The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries 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,
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) 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 Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Broadstairs She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Broadstairs
