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"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Middletown "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Middletown
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Middletown Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Middletown
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Middletown "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Middletown
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "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) Middletown When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "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) Middletown
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Middletown Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Middletown
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "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) Middletown When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Middletown
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Middletown Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Middletown
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Man and wife make one fool. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Middletown Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Middletown
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Middletown 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Middletown
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Middletown Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Middletown
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Middletown The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 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 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Middletown
