"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Leicester Riders Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Leicester Riders
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Leicester Riders Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
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-- Peter Oakley Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Leicester Riders Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Leicester Riders
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Leicester Riders "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Leicester Riders
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Leicester Riders "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Leicester Riders
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Leicester Riders "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Leicester Riders
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Leicester Riders "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) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Leicester Riders
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Leicester Riders The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Leicester Riders America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Leicester Riders
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Leicester Riders "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Leicester Riders
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Leicester Riders Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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