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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Little Glemham Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Little Glemham "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Little Glemham
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Little Glemham I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Little Glemham
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Little Glemham The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Little Glemham
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Little Glemham "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "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) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Little Glemham
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Little Glemham See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Little Glemham
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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" Little Glemham Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Little Glemham
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Little Glemham "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) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Little Glemham
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Little Glemham Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Little Glemham
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "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) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Little Glemham I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Little Glemham
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Little Glemham I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Little Glemham
