Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "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 Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Lincolnshire If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Lincolnshire
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Lincolnshire Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Lincolnshire
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Lincolnshire Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Lincolnshire
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Lincolnshire I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Lincolnshire
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Lincolnshire When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Lincolnshire
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Lincolnshire Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Lincolnshire
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Lincolnshire He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 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 Lincolnshire
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Lincolnshire 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 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Lincolnshire
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Lincolnshire "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Lincolnshire
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin 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 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Lincolnshire The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Lincolnshire
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Lincolnshire I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Lincolnshire
