"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles 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 am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Stockport "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) May you never leave your marriage alive. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stockport
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Stockport Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Stockport
"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 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Stockport Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Stockport
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Stockport "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Stockport
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 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 Stockport "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Stockport
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Stockport If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Stockport
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Stockport I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Stockport
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Stockport "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stockport
"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) 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 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stockport Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Stockport
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Stockport I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Stockport
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Stockport "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Stockport
