Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Lockeridge When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Lockeridge
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Lockeridge Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Lockeridge
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Lockeridge "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Lockeridge
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Lockeridge Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Lockeridge
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Lockeridge He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Lockeridge
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Lockeridge blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Lockeridge
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Lockeridge [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 "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 Lockeridge
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Lockeridge Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Lockeridge
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Lockeridge "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Lockeridge
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Lockeridge If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lockeridge
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Lockeridge "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Lockeridge
