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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Shipston-on-Stour I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Shipston-on-Stour
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Shipston-on-Stour Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Shipston-on-Stour
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Shipston-on-Stour 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 "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Shipston-on-Stour
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Shipston-on-Stour There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Shipston-on-Stour
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Shipston-on-Stour Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Shipston-on-Stour
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Shipston-on-Stour Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead 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 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Shipston-on-Stour
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Shipston-on-Stour "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Shipston-on-Stour
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Shipston-on-Stour 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Shipston-on-Stour
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Shipston-on-Stour Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Shipston-on-Stour
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Shipston-on-Stour A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Shipston-on-Stour
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Shipston-on-Stour As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Shipston-on-Stour
