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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 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cottingley Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cottingley
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Cottingley The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Cottingley
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Cottingley The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Cottingley
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Cottingley There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Cottingley
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 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Cottingley Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Cottingley
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Cottingley "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Cottingley
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Cottingley We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Cottingley
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Cottingley 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 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Cottingley
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Cottingley The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Cottingley
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Cottingley If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Cottingley
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cottingley Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Cottingley
