Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest 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 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Nuneaton Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Nuneaton
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Nuneaton Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Nuneaton
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Nuneaton Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Nuneaton
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Nuneaton In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Nuneaton
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Nuneaton Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Nuneaton
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 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Nuneaton I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Nuneaton
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Nuneaton Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Nuneaton
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Nuneaton To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Nuneaton
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Nuneaton Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Nuneaton
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Nuneaton When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Nuneaton Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Nuneaton
