What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "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 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. City of Bradford Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 City of Bradford
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot City of Bradford "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous City of Bradford
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 City of Bradford He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers City of Bradford
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "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 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan City of Bradford "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 "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide City of Bradford
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink City of Bradford Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs City of Bradford
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton City of Bradford Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev City of Bradford
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith City of Bradford "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce City of Bradford
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) City of Bradford Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare City of Bradford
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi City of Bradford Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein City of Bradford
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson City of Bradford "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) City of Bradford
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 There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane 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 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 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard City of Bradford "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle City of Bradford
