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Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Oxted "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Oxted
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Oxted "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Oxted
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Oxted At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Oxted
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Oxted A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Oxted
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Oxted Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "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 "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Oxted
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) 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" When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Oxted Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Oxted
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oxted "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Oxted
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Oxted Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Oxted
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Oxted Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Oxted
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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Oxted The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Oxted
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Oxted "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) 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 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Oxted
