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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Deeping St James 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 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Deeping St James
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Deeping St James I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Deeping St James
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Deeping St James It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Deeping St James
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Deeping St James You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Deeping St James
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Deeping St James Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Deeping St James
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Deeping St James My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Deeping St James
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Deeping St James For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Deeping St James
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Deeping St James The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Deeping St James
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Deeping St James Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Deeping St James
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Deeping St James Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Deeping St James
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Deeping St James The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Deeping St James
