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I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Woking A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning 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 Woking
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Woking Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "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) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Woking
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Woking You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Woking
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Woking "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Woking
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Woking Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Woking
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Woking Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Woking
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Woking We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Woking
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Woking Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Woking
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Woking Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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
and If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Woking
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Woking Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Woking
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Woking Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Woking
