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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Heckmondwike The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Heckmondwike
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Heckmondwike Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Heckmondwike
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Heckmondwike I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Heckmondwike
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Heckmondwike Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Heckmondwike
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Heckmondwike A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Heckmondwike
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Heckmondwike Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Heckmondwike
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Heckmondwike All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Heckmondwike
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Heckmondwike In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Heckmondwike
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Heckmondwike Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Heckmondwike
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- Abba Eban When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Marriage is a rest period between romances. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Heckmondwike The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Heckmondwike
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Heckmondwike "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Heckmondwike
