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I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Lytham St Anne's If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lytham St Anne's
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Lytham St Anne's 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 "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Lytham St Anne's
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lytham St Anne's Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull 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 Lytham St Anne's
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Lytham St Anne's People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Lytham St Anne's
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "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) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Lytham St Anne's A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Lytham St Anne's
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Lytham St Anne's "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Lytham St Anne's
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lytham St Anne's Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Lytham St Anne's
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Lytham St Anne's Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Lytham St Anne's
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) Lytham St Anne's Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Lytham St Anne's
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Lytham St Anne's "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Lytham St Anne's
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Lytham St Anne's Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Lytham St Anne's
