"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sandiacre Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Sandiacre
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Sandiacre "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Sandiacre
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sandiacre How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Sandiacre
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Sandiacre "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, The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Sandiacre
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Sandiacre A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Sandiacre
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Sandiacre Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Sandiacre
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Sandiacre Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Sandiacre
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "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 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Sandiacre Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Sandiacre
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Sandiacre Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Sandiacre
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Sandiacre Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Sandiacre
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Sandiacre Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Sandiacre
