"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels 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. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Chillenden Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Chillenden
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Chillenden A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Chillenden
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Chillenden Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Chillenden
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Chillenden My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Chillenden
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" "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Chillenden This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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 Chillenden
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chillenden I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chillenden
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Chillenden Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Chillenden
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Chillenden "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Chillenden
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Chillenden Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Chillenden
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Chillenden "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Chillenden
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Chillenden Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Chillenden
