The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Crockenhill Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Crockenhill
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Crockenhill Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Crockenhill
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Crockenhill I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Crockenhill
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Crockenhill Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "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) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Crockenhill
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Crockenhill In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Crockenhill
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 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Crockenhill If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "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) "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) Crockenhill
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Crockenhill I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Crockenhill
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Crockenhill "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crockenhill
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Crockenhill What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Crockenhill
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Crockenhill By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Crockenhill
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte 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 Crockenhill Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Crockenhill
