I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Yorkshire and the Humber "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Yorkshire and the Humber
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Yorkshire and the Humber Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Yorkshire and the Humber
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Yorkshire and the Humber "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Yorkshire and the Humber
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Yorkshire and the Humber A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Yorkshire and the Humber
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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) "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 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Yorkshire and the Humber Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Yorkshire and the Humber
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte 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 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Yorkshire and the Humber Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Yorkshire and the Humber
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Yorkshire and the Humber Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Yorkshire and the Humber
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Yorkshire and the Humber I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Yorkshire and the Humber
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Yorkshire and the Humber "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Yorkshire and the Humber
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Yorkshire and the Humber "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Yorkshire and the Humber
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Yorkshire and the Humber In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
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