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All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 Chevening It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
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I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen 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 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Chevening "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin 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 Chevening Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Chevening
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Chevening He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Chevening
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Chevening How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Chevening
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Chevening Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Chevening
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Chevening "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Chevening
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Chevening The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Chevening
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Chevening To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Chevening
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Chevening "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chevening
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) 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 To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Chevening Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills 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 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Chevening
