blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Oldham Borough Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Oldham Borough
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 Oldham Borough Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Oldham Borough
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Oldham Borough Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Oldham Borough
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Oldham Borough The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Oldham Borough
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Oldham Borough People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Oldham Borough
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Oldham Borough When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Oldham Borough
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Oldham Borough If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Oldham Borough
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Oldham Borough We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Oldham Borough
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Oldham Borough To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Oldham Borough
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Oldham Borough Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Oldham Borough
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Oldham Borough "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Oldham Borough
