"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Salford City If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Salford City
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "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) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Salford City "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Salford City
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Salford City You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Salford City
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Salford City Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Salford City
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, I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "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) Salford City "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Salford City
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Salford City "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Salford City
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Salford City "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Salford City
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Salford City Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Salford City
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Salford City Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Salford City
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Salford City Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Salford City
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Salford City The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Salford City
