"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Dadlington How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Dadlington
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Dadlington The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Dadlington
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Dadlington There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Dadlington
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 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 Dadlington "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Dadlington
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Dadlington What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Dadlington
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Dadlington Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Dadlington
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dadlington "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Dadlington
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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Dadlington I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Dadlington
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Dadlington To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Dadlington
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "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 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Dadlington I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Dadlington
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Dadlington Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Dadlington
