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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Goring Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Goring
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Goring Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Goring
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Goring Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Goring
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld 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" Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Goring The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Goring
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Goring Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Goring
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie 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." ( Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Goring A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Goring
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Goring I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Goring
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Goring For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Goring
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "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) Goring "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Goring
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Goring I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Goring
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "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) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Goring Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Goring
