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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Almondbury During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Almondbury
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Almondbury Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
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-- Henry Wadsworth Lo To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
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-- Margaret Fairless Barber The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Almondbury
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
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-- Robert Frost When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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-- Ambrose Bierce "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Almondbury
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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-- Anonymous If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Almondbury
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Almondbury "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Almondbury
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Almondbury "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Almondbury
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Almondbury If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Almondbury
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Almondbury Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Almondbury
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-- Brendan Hills Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Almondbury "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Almondbury
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Almondbury "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Almondbury
