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Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Clitheroe Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Clitheroe
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer 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 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Clitheroe Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Clitheroe
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Clitheroe Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Clitheroe
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Clitheroe My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clitheroe
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Clitheroe Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Clitheroe
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Clitheroe The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Clitheroe
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Clitheroe The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Clitheroe
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Clitheroe Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine 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 Clitheroe
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Clitheroe Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Clitheroe
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Clitheroe The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Clitheroe
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Clitheroe What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words 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 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Clitheroe
