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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Crawley No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Crawley
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Crawley 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 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Crawley
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Crawley "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) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Crawley
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Crawley "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Crawley
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Crawley He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Crawley
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous 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 Crawley The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Crawley
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Crawley "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Crawley
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Crawley Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Crawley
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Crawley Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Crawley
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Crawley I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Crawley
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Crawley Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Crawley
