He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Bromsgrove Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Bromsgrove
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Bromsgrove "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Bromsgrove
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Bromsgrove The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Bromsgrove
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Bromsgrove Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Bromsgrove
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Bromsgrove The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Bromsgrove
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Bromsgrove "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Bromsgrove
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West 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 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Bromsgrove Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Bromsgrove
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Bromsgrove Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Bromsgrove
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Bromsgrove After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Bromsgrove
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Bromsgrove Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Bromsgrove
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Bromsgrove "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Bromsgrove
