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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Hornby Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink 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 Hornby
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hornby To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Hornby
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Hornby Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Hornby
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 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 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Hornby There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Hornby
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Hornby "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Hornby
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hornby I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Hornby
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hornby The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Hornby
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Hornby Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Hornby
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Hornby In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Hornby
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is a rest period between romances. Hornby The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Hornby
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Hornby then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Hornby
