Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Thurstaston No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Thurstaston
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Thurstaston I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Thurstaston
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Thurstaston 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 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Thurstaston
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Thurstaston All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Thurstaston
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Thurstaston 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Thurstaston
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Thurstaston 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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Thurstaston
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Thurstaston It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Thurstaston
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Thurstaston Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thurstaston
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Thurstaston "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Thurstaston
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Thurstaston 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 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Thurstaston
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 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Thurstaston "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Thurstaston
