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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Lichfield An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Lichfield
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) >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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Lichfield I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Lichfield
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Lichfield Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Lichfield
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Lichfield As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Lichfield
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "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) Lichfield Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Lichfield
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Lichfield If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Lichfield
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Lichfield Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "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 have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Lichfield
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Lichfield "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Lichfield
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Lichfield My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Lichfield
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz 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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lichfield I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Lichfield
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Lichfield Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Lichfield
