You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "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) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "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) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Sandwell Metropolitan Borough If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Sandwell Metropolitan Borough However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Sandwell Metropolitan Borough "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Sandwell Metropolitan Borough "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Sandwell Metropolitan Borough "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
