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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Brompton-by-Sawdon "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Brompton-by-Sawdon
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Brompton-by-Sawdon Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Brompton-by-Sawdon
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Brompton-by-Sawdon "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Brompton-by-Sawdon
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brompton-by-Sawdon Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Brompton-by-Sawdon
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Brompton-by-Sawdon Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Brompton-by-Sawdon
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Brompton-by-Sawdon It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Brompton-by-Sawdon
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "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) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Brompton-by-Sawdon "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Brompton-by-Sawdon
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Brompton-by-Sawdon 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 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Brompton-by-Sawdon
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde My other wife is beautiful. Brompton-by-Sawdon It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Brompton-by-Sawdon
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar 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 Brompton-by-Sawdon Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Brompton-by-Sawdon
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Brompton-by-Sawdon 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 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Brompton-by-Sawdon
