"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Hambleton District I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Hambleton District
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Hambleton District I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hambleton District
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married 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 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Hambleton District A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Hambleton District
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Hambleton District The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Hambleton District
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Hambleton District Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Hambleton District
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Hambleton District "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Hambleton District
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Hambleton District 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 When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Hambleton District
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Hambleton District When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Hambleton District
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Hambleton District My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Hambleton District
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Hambleton District Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hambleton District
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Hambleton District The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Hambleton District
