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"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
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-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Clayton-le-Moors Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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-- French saying If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Clayton-le-Moors If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
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-- Dr. Karl Menninger "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Clayton-le-Moors
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Clayton-le-Moors "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Clayton-le-Moors "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Clayton-le-Moors
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Clayton-le-Moors Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Clayton-le-Moors
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Clayton-le-Moors Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
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May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Clayton-le-Moors "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Clayton-le-Moors "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clayton-le-Moors
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Clayton-le-Moors We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Clayton-le-Moors >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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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