"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Laneshawbridge Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Laneshawbridge
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Laneshawbridge No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "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) Laneshawbridge
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Laneshawbridge He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Laneshawbridge
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laneshawbridge It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Laneshawbridge
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Laneshawbridge "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Laneshawbridge
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Laneshawbridge Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Laneshawbridge
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Laneshawbridge "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Laneshawbridge
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Laneshawbridge Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Laneshawbridge
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Laneshawbridge We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Laneshawbridge
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Laneshawbridge I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Laneshawbridge
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Laneshawbridge The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Laneshawbridge
