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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Dymchurch It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Dymchurch
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Dymchurch "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Dymchurch
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Dymchurch I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Dymchurch
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Dymchurch Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher 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 If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Dymchurch If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Dymchurch
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Dymchurch Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Dymchurch
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Dymchurch "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Dymchurch
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Dymchurch There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Dymchurch
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Dymchurch 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 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Dymchurch
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) 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 Dymchurch Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Dymchurch
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Dymchurch Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Dymchurch
