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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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Heswall Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Heswall
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "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 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Heswall Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Heswall
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Heswall We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Heswall
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Heswall All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Heswall
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Heswall "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Heswall
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Heswall "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 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Heswall
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Heswall Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Heswall
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Heswall Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Heswall
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Heswall There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Heswall
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Heswall "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Heswall
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Heswall Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Heswall
