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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Hyndburn Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Hyndburn
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Hyndburn Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Hyndburn
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Hyndburn Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Hyndburn
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling 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 Hyndburn Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "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) Hyndburn
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Hyndburn "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Hyndburn
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Hyndburn "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Hyndburn
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "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 Hyndburn "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Hyndburn
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Hyndburn At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Hyndburn
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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 Hyndburn Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Hyndburn
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Hyndburn A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Hyndburn
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Hyndburn The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Hyndburn
