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Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "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 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Canterbury "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Canterbury
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Canterbury It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Canterbury
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Canterbury Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Canterbury
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Canterbury I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Canterbury
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Canterbury 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 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 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Canterbury
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Canterbury A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Canterbury
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Canterbury A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Canterbury
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Canterbury Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Canterbury
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Canterbury Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Canterbury
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Canterbury Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Canterbury
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Canterbury "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) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Canterbury
