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My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud South Yorkshire The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw South Yorkshire
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain South Yorkshire Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard South Yorkshire
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) South Yorkshire "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright South Yorkshire
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf 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.
-- A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a 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 South Yorkshire "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) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill South Yorkshire
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec South Yorkshire Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln South Yorkshire
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde South Yorkshire Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu South Yorkshire
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman South Yorkshire For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin South Yorkshire
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein South Yorkshire "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "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-) South Yorkshire
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres South Yorkshire I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 South Yorkshire
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower South Yorkshire Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie South Yorkshire
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "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) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne South Yorkshire The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson South Yorkshire
