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As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Stourport on Severn Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stourport on Severn
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Stourport on Severn A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Stourport on Severn
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Stourport on Severn "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Stourport on Severn
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Stourport on Severn Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Stourport on Severn
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Stourport on Severn We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Stourport on Severn
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Stourport on Severn The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "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) Stourport on Severn
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Stourport on Severn Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Stourport on Severn
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Stourport on Severn All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Stourport on Severn
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Stourport on Severn "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Stourport on Severn
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Stourport on Severn You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Stourport on Severn
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Stourport on Severn God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Stourport on Severn
