Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Desborough All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Desborough
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Desborough Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Desborough
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Desborough 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. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Desborough
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Desborough Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Desborough
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Desborough Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Desborough
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Desborough Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Desborough
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Desborough Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Desborough
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Desborough America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Desborough
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Desborough The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Desborough
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Desborough "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Desborough
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Desborough Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Desborough
