There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Canterbury District Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Canterbury District
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Canterbury District I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Canterbury District
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "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) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Canterbury District We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Canterbury District
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Canterbury District Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Canterbury District
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Canterbury District "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Canterbury District
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Canterbury District Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Canterbury District
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Canterbury District I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen 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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Canterbury District
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Canterbury District I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Canterbury District
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Canterbury District Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Canterbury District
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Canterbury District "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Canterbury District
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Canterbury District Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Canterbury District
