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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Evesham I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Evesham
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Evesham The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Evesham
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Evesham "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Evesham
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Evesham What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Evesham
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Evesham "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Evesham
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Evesham Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Evesham Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Evesham
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Evesham 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 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Evesham
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Evesham Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Evesham
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Evesham Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Evesham
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Evesham Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Evesham
