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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dinnington There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Dinnington
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Dinnington 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.
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Dinnington
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Dinnington "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Dinnington
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Dinnington Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Dinnington
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Dinnington Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Dinnington
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Dinnington I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Dinnington
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Dinnington Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Dinnington
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody 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 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Dinnington Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Dinnington
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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Dinnington You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Dinnington
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Dinnington "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Dinnington
"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 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Dinnington "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Dinnington
