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"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Handcross A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower 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 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Handcross
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Handcross Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Handcross
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Handcross These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Handcross
"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) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Handcross Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Handcross
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Handcross A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Handcross
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Handcross There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Handcross
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Handcross Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Handcross
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Handcross You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Handcross
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Handcross If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Handcross
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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley 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 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Handcross "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Handcross
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Handcross Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Handcross
