There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Kirkby "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Kirkby
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 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Kirkby There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Kirkby
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Kirkby Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Kirkby
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Kirkby "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Kirkby
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Kirkby "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Kirkby
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Kirkby The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Kirkby
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Kirkby Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Kirkby
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Kirkby Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kirkby
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) "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) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Kirkby Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Kirkby
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Kirkby The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Kirkby
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth 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 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Kirkby With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Kirkby
