He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Addingham "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Addingham
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Addingham Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Addingham
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Addingham 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 If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Addingham
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Addingham "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Addingham
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Addingham A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Addingham
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Addingham Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Addingham
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Addingham Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Addingham
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Addingham Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Addingham
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben 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 Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Addingham He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Addingham
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Addingham I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Addingham
Man and wife make one fool. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Addingham Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Addingham
