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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Carryduff Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Carryduff
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Carryduff They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Carryduff
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Carryduff "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Carryduff
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Carryduff Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Carryduff
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "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) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Carryduff Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Carryduff
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Carryduff "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Carryduff
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Carryduff Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Carryduff
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Carryduff "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Carryduff
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Carryduff "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Carryduff
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) 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 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Carryduff The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Carryduff
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Carryduff When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Carryduff
