"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Bolton Metropolitan Borough "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Bolton Metropolitan Borough
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Bolton Metropolitan Borough If you are going through hell, keep going.
- 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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Bolton Metropolitan Borough
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Bolton Metropolitan Borough Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Bolton Metropolitan Borough
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Bolton Metropolitan Borough Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Bolton Metropolitan Borough
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Bolton Metropolitan Borough If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "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) Bolton Metropolitan Borough
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Bolton Metropolitan Borough If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Bolton Metropolitan Borough
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Bolton Metropolitan Borough "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Bolton Metropolitan Borough
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Bolton Metropolitan Borough "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Bolton Metropolitan Borough
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Bolton Metropolitan Borough "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Bolton Metropolitan Borough
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "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) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Bolton Metropolitan Borough Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) What's new? Most of my wife. Bolton Metropolitan Borough
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) 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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Bolton Metropolitan Borough "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Bolton Metropolitan Borough
