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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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Epsom and Ewell Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Epsom and Ewell
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 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Epsom and Ewell "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Epsom and Ewell
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. 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 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Epsom and Ewell The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Epsom and Ewell
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Epsom and Ewell I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Epsom and Ewell
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Epsom and Ewell CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Epsom and Ewell
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Epsom and Ewell "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "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) Epsom and Ewell
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Epsom and Ewell "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) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Epsom and Ewell
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Epsom and Ewell Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Epsom and Ewell
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Epsom and Ewell Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Epsom and Ewell
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Epsom and Ewell My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Epsom and Ewell
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Epsom and Ewell Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Epsom and Ewell
