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My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Chilham Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Chilham
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Chilham Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Chilham
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Chilham Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Chilham
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Chilham Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Chilham
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Chilham "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Chilham
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Chilham If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Chilham
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Chilham Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Chilham
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Chilham Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Chilham
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Chilham If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "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, Chilham
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Chilham ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Chilham
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Chilham "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Chilham
