All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Harrogate Borough Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Harrogate Borough
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Harrogate Borough I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Harrogate Borough
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Harrogate Borough A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Harrogate Borough "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) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Harrogate Borough
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Harrogate Borough Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Harrogate Borough
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Harrogate Borough I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Harrogate Borough
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Harrogate Borough I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Harrogate Borough
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Harrogate Borough "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Harrogate Borough
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "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 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Harrogate Borough What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Harrogate Borough
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Harrogate Borough Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Harrogate Borough
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Harrogate Borough The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Harrogate Borough
