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"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Falkirk District "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Falkirk District
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Falkirk District "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Falkirk District
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Falkirk District "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Falkirk District
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Falkirk District Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Falkirk District
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Falkirk District A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Falkirk District
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst 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. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Falkirk District blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Falkirk District
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Falkirk District I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Falkirk District
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil 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 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Falkirk District I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Falkirk District
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Falkirk District No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Falkirk District
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Falkirk District "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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 Falkirk District
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Falkirk District When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Falkirk District
