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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Cleckheaton "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Cleckheaton
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Cleckheaton "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Cleckheaton
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Cleckheaton It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Cleckheaton
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Cleckheaton English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "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 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Cleckheaton
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Cleckheaton "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Cleckheaton
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Cleckheaton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Cleckheaton
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Cleckheaton "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Cleckheaton
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 Cleckheaton Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Cleckheaton
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Cleckheaton When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Cleckheaton
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Cleckheaton Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cleckheaton
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Cleckheaton "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Cleckheaton
