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The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous 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 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Bury St Edmunds "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Bury St Edmunds
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Man and wife make one fool. Bury St Edmunds Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Bury St Edmunds
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Bury St Edmunds 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 If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bury St Edmunds
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Bury St Edmunds "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Bury St Edmunds
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 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Bury St Edmunds Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bury St Edmunds
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Bury St Edmunds Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Bury St Edmunds
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous 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 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bury St Edmunds An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Bury St Edmunds
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Bury St Edmunds Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Bury St Edmunds
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Bury St Edmunds Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Bury St Edmunds
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Bury St Edmunds Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Bury St Edmunds
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Bury St Edmunds I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Bury St Edmunds
