A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Nottinghamshire Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller 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 Nottinghamshire
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "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) Nottinghamshire A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd 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 Nottinghamshire
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nottinghamshire I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Nottinghamshire
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Nottinghamshire I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Nottinghamshire
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Nottinghamshire "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Nottinghamshire
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Nottinghamshire "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Nottinghamshire
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Nottinghamshire "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Nottinghamshire
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Nottinghamshire Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Nottinghamshire
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Nottinghamshire Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Nottinghamshire
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 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Nottinghamshire I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Nottinghamshire
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Nottinghamshire "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Nottinghamshire
