Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Trafford Borough Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 Trafford Borough
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Trafford Borough We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Trafford Borough
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Trafford Borough All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) 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 Trafford Borough
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Trafford Borough This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Trafford Borough
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Trafford Borough Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Trafford Borough
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Trafford Borough "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Trafford Borough
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James 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 Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Trafford Borough "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Trafford Borough
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Trafford Borough Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Trafford Borough
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Trafford Borough "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Trafford Borough
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Trafford Borough Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Trafford Borough
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Trafford Borough "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Trafford Borough
