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I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Burton on Trent I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Burton on Trent
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Burton on Trent Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Burton on Trent
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Burton on Trent "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Burton on Trent
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Burton on Trent I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Burton on Trent
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Burton on Trent All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Burton on Trent
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Burton on Trent "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Burton on Trent
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Burton on Trent "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Burton on Trent
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Burton on Trent The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Burton on Trent
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Burton on Trent "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Burton on Trent
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Burton on Trent Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Burton on Trent
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Burton on Trent What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Burton on Trent
