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"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Burton on the Wolds My other wife is beautiful. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Burton on the Wolds
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Burton on the Wolds All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Burton on the Wolds
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Burton on the Wolds We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Burton on the Wolds
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Burton on the Wolds We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Burton on the Wolds
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Burton on the Wolds It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Burton on the Wolds
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Burton on the Wolds 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 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Burton on the Wolds
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Burton on the Wolds "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Burton on the Wolds
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Burton on the Wolds Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Burton on the Wolds
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Burton on the Wolds "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Burton on the Wolds
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Burton on the Wolds Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I 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 Burton on the Wolds
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Burton on the Wolds Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Burton on the Wolds
