Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "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) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ 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 Northenden I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Northenden
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Northenden "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Northenden
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Northenden I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Northenden
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "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 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Northenden "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Northenden
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Northenden I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Northenden
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Northenden Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Northenden
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Northenden I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Northenden
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Northenden "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Northenden
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Northenden The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Northenden
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Northenden Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Northenden
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Northenden your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Northenden
