Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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-- Samuel Butler Nottingham
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
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-- Woody Allen Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Nottingham We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Nottingham
What do you take me for, an idiot?
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-- Mark Twain Nottingham
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
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perfectly.
-- Anonymous Nottingham
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
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-- Oscar Wilde Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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remember what Nottingham Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Nottingham
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Nottingham It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
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-- French Proverb Nottingham
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
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-- Margaret Mead Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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-- Shecky Greene Nottingham Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
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-- Thomas Arnold Bennet If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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cocaine.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
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-- Douglas Adams Nottingham
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "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') "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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-- Anonymous I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Nottingham
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Nottingham 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 They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
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-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "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) Nottingham
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
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over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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