"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Chiddingstone "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Chiddingstone
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Chiddingstone Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chiddingstone
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp 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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Chiddingstone I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Chiddingstone
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Chiddingstone I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Chiddingstone
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Chiddingstone I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Chiddingstone
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Chiddingstone The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Chiddingstone
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Chiddingstone I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Chiddingstone
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 I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Chiddingstone The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Chiddingstone
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Chiddingstone Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Chiddingstone
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Chiddingstone I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Chiddingstone
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Chiddingstone If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Chiddingstone
