Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Farnworth We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Farnworth
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Farnworth Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Farnworth
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Farnworth "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Farnworth
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Farnworth Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Farnworth
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Farnworth Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Farnworth
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Farnworth blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Farnworth
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "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) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Farnworth I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Farnworth
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Farnworth The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Farnworth
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Farnworth Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Farnworth
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Farnworth "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Farnworth
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Farnworth Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Farnworth
