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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Newtimber A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Newtimber
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" May you never leave your marriage alive. Newtimber Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Newtimber
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Newtimber I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Newtimber
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Newtimber If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Newtimber
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Newtimber They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Newtimber
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Newtimber Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Newtimber
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Newtimber A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Newtimber
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Newtimber We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Newtimber
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins 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. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Newtimber Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Newtimber
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Newtimber Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous 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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Newtimber
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Newtimber Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Newtimber
