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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Middleton on Sea It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Middleton on Sea
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Middleton on Sea Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "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) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Middleton on Sea
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Middleton on Sea Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Middleton on Sea
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Middleton on Sea Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Middleton on Sea
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Middleton on Sea Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Middleton on Sea
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "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) Middleton on Sea At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Middleton on Sea
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "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) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Middleton on Sea You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Middleton on Sea
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Middleton on Sea It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Middleton on Sea
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 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Middleton on Sea It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Middleton on Sea
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Middleton on Sea People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Middleton on Sea
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Middleton on Sea Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Middleton on Sea
