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"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Halewood Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Halewood
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Halewood I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Halewood
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Halewood Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Halewood
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Halewood There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Halewood
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Halewood All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Halewood
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Halewood I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Halewood
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Halewood My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Halewood
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Halewood 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 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Halewood
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Halewood "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Halewood
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 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 He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Halewood "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Halewood
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Halewood "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Halewood
