"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Thames Valley Tigers "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Thames Valley Tigers
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Thames Valley Tigers blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Thames Valley Tigers
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Thames Valley Tigers ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Thames Valley Tigers
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Thames Valley Tigers Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Thames Valley Tigers
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Thames Valley Tigers The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- Arnold Bennett Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
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A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Thames Valley Tigers Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Thames Valley Tigers
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Thames Valley Tigers Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics 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 Thames Valley Tigers
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Thames Valley Tigers A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Thames Valley Tigers
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Thames Valley Tigers Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Thames Valley Tigers
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thames Valley Tigers I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Thames Valley Tigers
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "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) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Thames Valley Tigers All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
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