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All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Horsham District "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Horsham District
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Horsham District Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Horsham District
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) 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 "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Horsham District "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Horsham District
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Horsham District "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Horsham District
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Horsham District After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Horsham District
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Horsham District "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Horsham District
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "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) Horsham District "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Horsham District
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Horsham District "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Horsham District
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Horsham District Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Horsham District
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Horsham District A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Horsham District
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Horsham District The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "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) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Horsham District
