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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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..." ( It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Chipstead He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Chipstead
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Chipstead "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Chipstead
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Chipstead A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Chipstead
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Chipstead All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Chipstead
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Chipstead Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Chipstead
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Chipstead I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Chipstead
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Chipstead No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Chipstead
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Chipstead My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Chipstead
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Chipstead "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chipstead
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Chipstead Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Chipstead
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Chipstead Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Chipstead
