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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Spelthorne When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Spelthorne
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Spelthorne Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Spelthorne
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Spelthorne "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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 seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Spelthorne
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Spelthorne "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "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) Spelthorne
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Spelthorne Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Spelthorne
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Spelthorne He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Spelthorne
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Spelthorne I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Spelthorne
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Spelthorne "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Spelthorne I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Spelthorne
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Spelthorne Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Spelthorne
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Spelthorne Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Spelthorne
