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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Chartham What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry 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 Chartham
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Chartham A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Chartham
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Chartham I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Chartham
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Chartham Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Chartham
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Chartham Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Chartham
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Chartham Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Chartham
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Chartham Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Chartham
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "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) Chartham Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Chartham
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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chartham "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Chartham
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Chartham The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Chartham
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "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) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Chartham Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Chartham
