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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Westcott Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "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 Westcott
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Westcott He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Westcott
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Westcott Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Westcott
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Westcott I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Westcott
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Westcott Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Westcott
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Westcott Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Westcott
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Westcott Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Westcott
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Westcott "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Westcott
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Westcott My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Westcott
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Westcott The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Westcott
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Westcott Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Westcott
