"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Attenborough In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Attenborough
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Attenborough To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Attenborough
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Attenborough Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Attenborough
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Attenborough In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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- William Jennings Bryan If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Attenborough And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Attenborough
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Attenborough Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Attenborough
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Attenborough We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Attenborough
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Attenborough It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Attenborough
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Attenborough As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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" "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attenborough
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Attenborough The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Attenborough
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Attenborough Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Attenborough
