You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Wemyss Bay If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Wemyss Bay
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Wemyss Bay "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Wemyss Bay
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Wemyss Bay Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Wemyss Bay
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Wemyss Bay Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Wemyss Bay
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Wemyss Bay I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Wemyss Bay
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Wemyss Bay We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Wemyss Bay
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Wemyss Bay "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Wemyss Bay
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Wemyss Bay We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Wemyss Bay
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Wemyss Bay Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Wemyss Bay
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Wemyss Bay I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Wemyss Bay
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Wemyss Bay If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Wemyss Bay
