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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) 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 Clapham The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Clapham
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Clapham No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Clapham
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Clapham "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Clapham
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Clapham 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 "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Clapham
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Clapham How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Clapham
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Clapham We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Clapham
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Clapham It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Clapham
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "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) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Clapham "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Clapham
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Clapham Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Clapham
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Clapham "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Clapham
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Clapham Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Clapham
