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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Hartlebury Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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. Hartlebury
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Hartlebury Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Hartlebury
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Hartlebury Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Hartlebury
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Hartlebury A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Hartlebury
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Hartlebury He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Hartlebury
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Hartlebury "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Hartlebury
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Hartlebury "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Hartlebury
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Hartlebury 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 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Hartlebury
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Hartlebury Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Hartlebury
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Hartlebury A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Hartlebury
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Hartlebury "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Hartlebury
