"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "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) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Ashton-in-Makerfield It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Ashton-in-Makerfield
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Ashton-in-Makerfield Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "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 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Ashton-in-Makerfield
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Ashton-in-Makerfield Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Ashton-in-Makerfield
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Ashton-in-Makerfield Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Ashton-in-Makerfield
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Ashton-in-Makerfield He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ashton-in-Makerfield
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Ashton-in-Makerfield The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Ashton-in-Makerfield
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Ashton-in-Makerfield The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Ashton-in-Makerfield
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Ashton-in-Makerfield Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Ashton-in-Makerfield
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Ashton-in-Makerfield I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Ashton-in-Makerfield
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Ashton-in-Makerfield "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Ashton-in-Makerfield
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau 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 Ashton-in-Makerfield "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) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Ashton-in-Makerfield
