Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "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) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Sleaford If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Sleaford
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Sleaford I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Sleaford
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sleaford "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) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Sleaford
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Sleaford Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Sleaford
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 Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry 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 Sleaford "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Sleaford
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Sleaford Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Sleaford
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Sleaford People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Sleaford
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sleaford I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Sleaford
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Sleaford "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Sleaford
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) 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 Unhappy Sleaford "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Sleaford
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Sleaford However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Sleaford
