"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Burley in Wharfedale It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
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-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Burley in Wharfedale
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Burley in Wharfedale "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Burley in Wharfedale
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Burley in Wharfedale Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Burley in Wharfedale Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Burley in Wharfedale
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Burley in Wharfedale A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright Burley in Wharfedale
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Alvin Toffler 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 Burley in Wharfedale The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Burley in Wharfedale
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
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-- Anatole France We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Burley in Wharfedale blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? 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 A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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-- Schopenhauer Burley in Wharfedale Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Burley in Wharfedale "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Burley in Wharfedale
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Burley in Wharfedale All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Cormac McCarthy "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Burley in Wharfedale
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner 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 Burley in Wharfedale "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
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