"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Chichester District Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Chichester District
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Chichester District Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Chichester District
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Chichester District Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Chichester District
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin 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 "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Chichester District If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Chichester District
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Chichester District The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Chichester District
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Chichester District Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chichester District
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Chichester District We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Chichester District
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Chichester District "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Chichester District
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Chichester District No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Chichester District
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. 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 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Chichester District An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf 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 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Chichester District
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Chichester District There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Chichester District
