The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Wigan The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wigan
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West 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 I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Wigan "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Wigan
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Wigan Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Wigan
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Wigan Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Wigan
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Wigan In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Wigan
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Wigan There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Wigan
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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Wigan The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Wigan
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Wigan It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst 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 Wigan
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Wigan The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Wigan
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Wigan Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Wigan
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Wigan Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Wigan
