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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 Baildon Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Baildon
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Baildon All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Baildon
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Baildon Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Baildon
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Baildon Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Baildon
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Baildon "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Baildon
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Baildon We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Baildon
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Baildon Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Baildon
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "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) Baildon If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Baildon
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Baildon Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Baildon
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Baildon Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Baildon
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Baildon Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Baildon
