The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Potterhanworth Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Potterhanworth
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Potterhanworth "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Potterhanworth
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Potterhanworth If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Potterhanworth
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Potterhanworth Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Potterhanworth
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Potterhanworth "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Potterhanworth
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Potterhanworth Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Potterhanworth
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 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Potterhanworth One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Potterhanworth
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Potterhanworth The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Potterhanworth
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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Potterhanworth "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Potterhanworth
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Potterhanworth If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Potterhanworth
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Potterhanworth "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 will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "'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) Potterhanworth
