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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the 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 Walsall Metropolitan Borough One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Walsall Metropolitan Borough
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "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) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Walsall Metropolitan Borough Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Walsall Metropolitan Borough
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Walsall Metropolitan Borough "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Walsall Metropolitan Borough
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Walsall Metropolitan Borough 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 "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) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Walsall Metropolitan Borough
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Walsall Metropolitan Borough Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Walsall Metropolitan Borough
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Walsall Metropolitan Borough Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Walsall Metropolitan Borough
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Walsall Metropolitan Borough A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Walsall Metropolitan Borough
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Walsall Metropolitan Borough We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Walsall Metropolitan Borough
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "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 Walsall Metropolitan Borough In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Walsall Metropolitan Borough
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Walsall Metropolitan Borough "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Walsall Metropolitan Borough
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Walsall Metropolitan Borough Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
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