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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Wolverhampton Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Wolverhampton
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Wolverhampton America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Wolverhampton
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Wolverhampton "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Wolverhampton
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p 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 When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Wolverhampton Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Wolverhampton
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Wolverhampton The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Wolverhampton
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wolverhampton The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Wolverhampton
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe 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 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Wolverhampton A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Wolverhampton
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Wolverhampton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Wolverhampton
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Wolverhampton The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Wolverhampton
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 "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Wolverhampton "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wolverhampton
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Wolverhampton That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Wolverhampton
