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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Edgbaston "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 "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Edgbaston
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Edgbaston If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Edgbaston
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Edgbaston "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) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Edgbaston
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Edgbaston When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Edgbaston
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Edgbaston "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Edgbaston
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 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Edgbaston "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Edgbaston
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Edgbaston Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Edgbaston
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Edgbaston Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Edgbaston
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "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) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Edgbaston blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Edgbaston
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. 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. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Edgbaston Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Edgbaston
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Edgbaston Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Edgbaston
