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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Limpsfield There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Limpsfield
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "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) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Limpsfield Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau 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
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Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Limpsfield "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Limpsfield
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Limpsfield There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Limpsfield
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "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) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Limpsfield Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Limpsfield
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Limpsfield I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
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Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Limpsfield "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Limpsfield
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Limpsfield "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Limpsfield
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Limpsfield I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Limpsfield
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Limpsfield We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Limpsfield
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Limpsfield A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Limpsfield
