It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Kedington I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Kedington
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Kedington Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Kedington
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Kedington I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Kedington
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Kedington He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Kedington
"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) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "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) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Kedington Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Kedington
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Kedington It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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) Kedington
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Kedington Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Kedington
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Kedington "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Kedington
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Kedington A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Kedington
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Kedington The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Kedington
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Kedington Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Kedington
