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Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Edinburgh, City of Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Edinburgh, City of
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Edinburgh, City of Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Edinburgh, City of
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous 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 Edinburgh, City of Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Edinburgh, City of
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Edinburgh, City of It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Edinburgh, City of
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Edinburgh, City of Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Edinburgh, City of
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Edinburgh, City of When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Edinburgh, City of
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Edinburgh, City of The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Edinburgh, City of
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Edinburgh, City of May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Edinburgh, City of
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Edinburgh, City of I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Edinburgh, City of
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali 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 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Edinburgh, City of The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Edinburgh, City of
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Edinburgh, City of The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Edinburgh, City of
