This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
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There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Market Bosworth
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Market Bosworth If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Market Bosworth
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Market Bosworth "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Market Bosworth
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Market Bosworth There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
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-- Giraudoux In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Market Bosworth
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Market Bosworth If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Market Bosworth
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "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) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Market Bosworth I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Market Bosworth
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington 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 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Market Bosworth The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Market Bosworth
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Market Bosworth "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Market Bosworth
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Market Bosworth blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Market Bosworth Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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