You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Bury Metropolitan Borough Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Bury Metropolitan Borough
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') 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 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Bury Metropolitan Borough I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Bury Metropolitan Borough
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Bury Metropolitan Borough "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Bury Metropolitan Borough
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Bury Metropolitan Borough When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Bury Metropolitan Borough
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Bury Metropolitan Borough Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Bury Metropolitan Borough
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Bury Metropolitan Borough A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Bury Metropolitan Borough
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Bury Metropolitan Borough "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Bury Metropolitan Borough
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Bury Metropolitan Borough 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 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Bury Metropolitan Borough
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Bury Metropolitan Borough .. 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 Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Bury Metropolitan Borough
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Bury Metropolitan Borough If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bury Metropolitan Borough
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Bury Metropolitan Borough There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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