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"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Stratford-upon-Avon I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Stratford-upon-Avon
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Stratford-upon-Avon Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Stratford-upon-Avon
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Stratford-upon-Avon It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Stratford-upon-Avon
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 We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Stratford-upon-Avon Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Stratford-upon-Avon
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Stratford-upon-Avon I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Stratford-upon-Avon
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Stratford-upon-Avon Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Stratford-upon-Avon
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Stratford-upon-Avon If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Stratford-upon-Avon
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Stratford-upon-Avon The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Stratford-upon-Avon
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Stratford-upon-Avon "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Stratford-upon-Avon
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Stratford-upon-Avon Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Stratford-upon-Avon
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Stratford-upon-Avon Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stratford-upon-Avon
