The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kirkintilloch You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Kirkintilloch
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Kirkintilloch "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Kirkintilloch
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Kirkintilloch One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Kirkintilloch
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Kirkintilloch Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Kirkintilloch
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Kirkintilloch Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Kirkintilloch
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Kirkintilloch The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Kirkintilloch
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Kirkintilloch 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Kirkintilloch
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Kirkintilloch When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Kirkintilloch
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Kirkintilloch "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Kirkintilloch
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Kirkintilloch "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Kirkintilloch
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Kirkintilloch The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Kirkintilloch
