Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Green Hammerton The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Green Hammerton
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Green Hammerton Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Green Hammerton
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Green Hammerton A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Green Hammerton
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Green Hammerton To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Green Hammerton
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Green Hammerton Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Green Hammerton
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Green Hammerton Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Green Hammerton
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Green Hammerton Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Green Hammerton
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Green Hammerton A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Green Hammerton
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Green Hammerton "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Green Hammerton
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Green Hammerton Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Green Hammerton
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Green Hammerton It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Green Hammerton
