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They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Clifton-upon-Teme "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Clifton-upon-Teme
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Clifton-upon-Teme Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Clifton-upon-Teme
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Clifton-upon-Teme "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Clifton-upon-Teme
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to 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 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Clifton-upon-Teme Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Clifton-upon-Teme
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Clifton-upon-Teme Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Clifton-upon-Teme
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Clifton-upon-Teme "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Clifton-upon-Teme
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Clifton-upon-Teme "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Clifton-upon-Teme
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Clifton-upon-Teme Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Clifton-upon-Teme
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Clifton-upon-Teme Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Clifton-upon-Teme
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Clifton-upon-Teme In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Clifton-upon-Teme
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Clifton-upon-Teme Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "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) Clifton-upon-Teme