The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside West Midlands "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) West Midlands
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg West Midlands I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) West Midlands
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous West Midlands Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) West Midlands
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz West Midlands As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll West Midlands
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin West Midlands All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce West Midlands
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau West Midlands "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl West Midlands
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) West Midlands "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) West Midlands
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams West Midlands "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig West Midlands
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein West Midlands Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford West Midlands
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm West Midlands "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol West Midlands
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward West Midlands "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All West Midlands
