"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Scunthorpe Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Scunthorpe
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Scunthorpe 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Scunthorpe
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "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) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Scunthorpe Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Scunthorpe
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) 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 "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Scunthorpe "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Scunthorpe
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Scunthorpe Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Scunthorpe
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Scunthorpe He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Scunthorpe
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Scunthorpe The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Scunthorpe
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Scunthorpe Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Scunthorpe
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Scunthorpe Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Scunthorpe
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Scunthorpe Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Scunthorpe
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Scunthorpe Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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 Scunthorpe
