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With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Knaresborough Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Knaresborough
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" 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
chara And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Knaresborough Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Knaresborough
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Knaresborough "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Knaresborough
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Knaresborough In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Knaresborough
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Knaresborough Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot 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 Knaresborough
"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) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Knaresborough My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Knaresborough
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Knaresborough I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Knaresborough
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Knaresborough We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Knaresborough
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Knaresborough Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Knaresborough
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Knaresborough This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Knaresborough
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Knaresborough When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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