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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "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 Great Ayton If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Great Ayton
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Great Ayton "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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 You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Great Ayton
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes 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 Great Ayton Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Great Ayton
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Great Ayton True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Great Ayton
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Great Ayton Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Great Ayton
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Great Ayton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Great Ayton
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Great Ayton You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Great Ayton
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Great Ayton Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Great Ayton
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Great Ayton "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Great Ayton
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry 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 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Great Ayton "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Great Ayton
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Great Ayton The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 Great Ayton