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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Godmersham Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Godmersham
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Godmersham Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Godmersham
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Godmersham "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Godmersham
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Godmersham A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Godmersham
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Godmersham "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Godmersham
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Godmersham "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. 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 Godmersham
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Godmersham "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Godmersham
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Godmersham He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Godmersham
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "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 Godmersham "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 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Godmersham
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Godmersham It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Godmersham
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Godmersham We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Godmersham
