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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Worksop "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Worksop
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Worksop In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Worksop
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "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) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Worksop He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Worksop
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Worksop Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Worksop
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Worksop "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Worksop
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 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Worksop One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Worksop
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Worksop "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Worksop
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Worksop Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "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) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Worksop
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Worksop I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Worksop
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Worksop See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Worksop
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Worksop Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Worksop
