It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Birkenhead blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Birkenhead
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Birkenhead "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Birkenhead
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Birkenhead I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Birkenhead
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Marriage is a rest period between romances. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Birkenhead 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Birkenhead
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "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." Birkenhead Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Birkenhead
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Birkenhead I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Birkenhead
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Birkenhead "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Birkenhead
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Birkenhead Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Birkenhead
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Birkenhead "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Birkenhead
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Birkenhead If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "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 Birkenhead
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray 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 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Birkenhead He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Birkenhead
