I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Gateshead Borough 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 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Gateshead Borough
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Gateshead Borough Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "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 Gateshead Borough
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Gateshead Borough "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Gateshead Borough
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Gateshead Borough With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Gateshead Borough
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Gateshead Borough Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Gateshead Borough
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Gateshead Borough You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Gateshead Borough
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Gateshead Borough Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Gateshead Borough
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Gateshead Borough There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Gateshead Borough
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Gateshead Borough Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Gateshead Borough
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Gateshead Borough Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Gateshead Borough
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Gateshead Borough 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
may We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Gateshead Borough
