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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Ferring A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Ferring
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Ferring Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Ferring
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Ferring Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Ferring
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Ferring Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Ferring
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Ferring There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Ferring
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Ferring The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Ferring
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Ferring The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Ferring
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ferring Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Ferring
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Ferring Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Ferring
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Ferring "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Ferring
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Ferring "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Ferring
