Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Lancashire Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Lancashire
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Lancashire "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Lancashire
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Lancashire "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Lancashire
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers 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 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
time The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Lancashire History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Lancashire
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Lancashire Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Lancashire
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Lancashire A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Lancashire
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Lancashire I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Lancashire
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Lancashire There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Lancashire
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Lancashire The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Lancashire
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Lancashire "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 Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Lancashire
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Lancashire After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lancashire
