He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Rochdale God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Rochdale
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Rochdale For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Rochdale
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. 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 I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Rochdale "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rochdale
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Rochdale Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Rochdale
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "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) Rochdale Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Rochdale
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Rochdale Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "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) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Rochdale
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Rochdale Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Rochdale
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Rochdale "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Rochdale
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Rochdale An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rochdale
"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) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Rochdale Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rochdale
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Rochdale Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Rochdale
