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"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Elveden 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 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Elveden
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Elveden Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Elveden
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Elveden Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Elveden
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 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, If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Elveden I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Elveden
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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, To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Elveden You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Elveden
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Elveden He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Elveden
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "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) Elveden This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Elveden Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Elveden
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Elveden "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Elveden A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Elveden
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Elveden I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Elveden
