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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance 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 Wymondham Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wymondham
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Wymondham "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Wymondham
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Wymondham "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Wymondham
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Wymondham "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Wymondham
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 Wymondham Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "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) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Wymondham
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Wymondham "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Wymondham
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Wymondham "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Wymondham
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Wymondham "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Wymondham
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Wymondham America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Wymondham
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Wymondham "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Wymondham
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Wymondham "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Wymondham
