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"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Midsomer Norton You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Midsomer Norton "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Midsomer Norton
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Midsomer Norton "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Midsomer Norton
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette 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 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Midsomer Norton When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Midsomer Norton It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell 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 Midsomer Norton
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Midsomer Norton I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Midsomer Norton
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Midsomer Norton "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Midsomer Norton
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Midsomer Norton Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Midsomer Norton
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Midsomer Norton 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 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Midsomer Norton Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Midsomer Norton
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "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 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Midsomer Norton I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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