Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Somerset "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Somerset
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Somerset Man and wife make one fool. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Somerset
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Somerset Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Somerset
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "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) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Somerset "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Somerset Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Somerset
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Somerset Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Somerset
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Somerset Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Somerset
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Somerset We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Somerset
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Somerset It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Somerset
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Somerset Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Somerset
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Somerset "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Somerset
