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"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "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) Stradishall To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Stradishall
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Stradishall Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Stradishall
"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 voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Stradishall Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Stradishall
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Stradishall For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Stradishall
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Stradishall Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Stradishall
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stradishall A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Stradishall
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Stradishall When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Stradishall
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Stradishall A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Stradishall
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Stradishall The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Stradishall
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Stradishall The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Stradishall
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Stradishall Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Stradishall
