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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Taunton "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Taunton
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Taunton "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Taunton
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Taunton A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Taunton
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Taunton "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) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Taunton
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 "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Taunton "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Taunton
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Taunton If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Taunton
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Taunton A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley 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 "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-) Taunton
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "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 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Taunton When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Taunton
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Taunton The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Taunton
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Taunton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Taunton
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Taunton Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Taunton
