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We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Newton-le-Willows God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Newton-le-Willows
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Newton-le-Willows Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Newton-le-Willows
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Newton-le-Willows I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Newton-le-Willows
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Newton-le-Willows Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Newton-le-Willows
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. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Newton-le-Willows My other wife is beautiful. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Newton-le-Willows
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Newton-le-Willows Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Newton-le-Willows
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Newton-le-Willows You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Newton-le-Willows
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Newton-le-Willows "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 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 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Newton-le-Willows
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 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Newton-le-Willows A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Newton-le-Willows
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Newton-le-Willows I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Newton-le-Willows
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky 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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Newton-le-Willows "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Newton-le-Willows
