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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Crowland Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Crowland
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Crowland A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Crowland
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Crowland If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "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 The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Crowland
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Crowland Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Crowland
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Crowland Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Crowland
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Crowland Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Crowland
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos 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 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Crowland One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Crowland
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "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) Crowland They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Crowland
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Crowland The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Crowland
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Crowland Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Crowland
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Crowland The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Crowland
