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Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Lapworth Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) 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 Lapworth
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Lapworth Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. 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 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Lapworth
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Lapworth The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Lapworth
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Lapworth And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Lapworth
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Lapworth Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Lapworth
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Lapworth "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Lapworth
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Lapworth There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Lapworth
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Lapworth Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Lapworth
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Lapworth Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lapworth
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Lapworth Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Lapworth
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Lapworth "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Lapworth
