"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Eythorne "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Eythorne
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers 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 Eythorne Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Eythorne
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 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Eythorne A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Eythorne
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
machi The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Eythorne Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Eythorne
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde >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 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Eythorne There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Eythorne
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Eythorne All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Eythorne
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Eythorne Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Eythorne
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Eythorne Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Eythorne
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Eythorne The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Eythorne
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "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) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Eythorne The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Eythorne
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Eythorne Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Eythorne
