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"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Ripponden Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Ripponden
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ripponden I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words 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 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Ripponden
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Ripponden It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Ripponden
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Ripponden Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Ripponden
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Ripponden Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Ripponden
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Ripponden To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Ripponden
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Ripponden If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Ripponden
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Ripponden Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Ripponden
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Ripponden Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Ripponden
"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) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Ripponden If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Ripponden
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ripponden There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Ripponden
