There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "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.) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Thurnscoe I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Thurnscoe
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Thurnscoe The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Thurnscoe
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Thurnscoe Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Thurnscoe
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Thurnscoe Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Thurnscoe
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Thurnscoe I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Thurnscoe
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Thurnscoe "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Thurnscoe
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Thurnscoe Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Thurnscoe
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Thurnscoe I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Thurnscoe
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Thurnscoe You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Thurnscoe
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Thurnscoe Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Thurnscoe
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Thurnscoe Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Thurnscoe
