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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Hunston The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Hunston
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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Hunston Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hunston
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "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) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Hunston When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Hunston
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) 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 Hunston For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Hunston
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Hunston "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Hunston
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Hunston blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Hunston
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Hunston Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Hunston
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Hunston "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Hunston
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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. Hunston Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Hunston
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Hunston If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Hunston
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Hunston As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Hunston
