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"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 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Kidsgrove 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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Kidsgrove
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Kidsgrove "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Kidsgrove
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Kidsgrove Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Kidsgrove
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Kidsgrove Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Kidsgrove
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Kidsgrove Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kidsgrove
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Kidsgrove I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Kidsgrove
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Kidsgrove "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Kidsgrove
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Kidsgrove Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kidsgrove
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Kidsgrove During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Kidsgrove
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Kidsgrove Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Kidsgrove
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Kidsgrove Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Kidsgrove
