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"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Freckleton Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Freckleton The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Freckleton We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Freckleton Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Freckleton Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Freckleton Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Freckleton "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Freckleton "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Freckleton 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 Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Freckleton Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Freckleton To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Freckleton "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Freckleton Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Freckleton He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus "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) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Freckleton Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Freckleton In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Freckleton I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Freckleton The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Freckleton We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Freckleton There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Freckleton Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Freckleton
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