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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Goudhurst "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Goudhurst
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Goudhurst They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Goudhurst
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Goudhurst People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Goudhurst
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Goudhurst "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Goudhurst
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Goudhurst If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "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 Goudhurst
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Goudhurst Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Goudhurst
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Goudhurst "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Goudhurst
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Goudhurst Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Goudhurst
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Goudhurst Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Goudhurst
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. 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 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Goudhurst An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Goudhurst
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Goudhurst A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Goudhurst
