Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Wrawby I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Wrawby In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Wrawby
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Wrawby More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Wrawby
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Wrawby With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Wrawby
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Wrawby We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Wrawby
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Wrawby "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Wrawby
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "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) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wrawby "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Wrawby
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "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) Wrawby "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Wrawby
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Wrawby Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Wrawby
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) 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 To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Wrawby "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wrawby
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Wrawby There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
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