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If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "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, Mawsley The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Mawsley
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Mawsley A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Mawsley
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Mawsley Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Mawsley
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous 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 Mawsley The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Mawsley
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Mawsley All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Mawsley
"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..." ( "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Mawsley "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Mawsley
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Mawsley Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Mawsley
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Mawsley The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Mawsley
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Mawsley Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Mawsley
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Mawsley There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Mawsley
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Mawsley If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Mawsley
