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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Burnham-on-Sea Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Burnham-on-Sea
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Burnham-on-Sea "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Burnham-on-Sea
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Burnham-on-Sea Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Burnham-on-Sea
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Burnham-on-Sea Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Burnham-on-Sea
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Burnham-on-Sea Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Burnham-on-Sea
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Burnham-on-Sea If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Burnham-on-Sea
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Burnham-on-Sea I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Burnham-on-Sea
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Burnham-on-Sea Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Burnham-on-Sea
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Burnham-on-Sea What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burnham-on-Sea
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Burnham-on-Sea A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Burnham-on-Sea
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Burnham-on-Sea You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Burnham-on-Sea
