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I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Capital of Culture Bid You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Capital of Culture Bid
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Capital of Culture Bid If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Capital of Culture Bid
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Capital of Culture Bid 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 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Capital of Culture Bid
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Capital of Culture Bid We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Capital of Culture Bid
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Capital of Culture Bid "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Capital of Culture Bid "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) 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 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Capital of Culture Bid
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 I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Capital of Culture Bid He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Capital of Culture Bid
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Capital of Culture Bid "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Capital of Culture Bid
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous 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 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Capital of Culture Bid Man and wife make one fool. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Capital of Culture Bid
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Capital of Culture Bid Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Capital of Culture Bid
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Capital of Culture Bid blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Capital of Culture Bid
