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"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Elmley Castle Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Elmley Castle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Elmley Castle "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Elmley Castle Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Elmley Castle The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Fred Astaire Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Elmley Castle
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Elmley Castle Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Elmley Castle The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Elmley Castle Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Elmley Castle Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Elmley Castle Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Elmley Castle It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Elmley Castle
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Elmley Castle "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Elmley Castle
