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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James West Midlands A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln West Midlands
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) West Midlands "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies 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" West Midlands
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice 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 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "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 West Midlands Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) West Midlands Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) West Midlands
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields West Midlands Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) West Midlands
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 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold West Midlands At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo West Midlands
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl West Midlands I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "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) West Midlands
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) West Midlands If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry West Midlands
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz West Midlands It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe West Midlands
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. West Midlands Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard West Midlands
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston 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 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 West Midlands "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) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden West Midlands
