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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley 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 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Dartford Borough What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 Dartford Borough
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Dartford Borough Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dartford Borough
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Dartford Borough I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dartford Borough
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Dartford Borough One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Dartford Borough
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "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) 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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Dartford Borough "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Dartford Borough
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Dartford Borough If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Dartford Borough
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Dartford Borough Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Dartford Borough
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Dartford Borough blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Dartford Borough
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Dartford Borough "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Dartford Borough
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Dartford Borough This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Dartford Borough
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Dartford Borough I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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