Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Collingham Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Collingham
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Collingham "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Collingham
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Collingham No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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 Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Collingham
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Collingham "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Collingham
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Collingham "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Collingham
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Collingham Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Collingham
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Collingham We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Collingham
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Collingham The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Collingham
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Collingham "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Collingham
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Collingham If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel What's new? Most of my wife. Collingham
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Collingham "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Collingham
