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In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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. "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) Perth and Kinross "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Perth and Kinross
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perth and Kinross Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Perth and Kinross
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung 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 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 Perth and Kinross Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Perth and Kinross
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Perth and Kinross "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Perth and Kinross
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Perth and Kinross "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Perth and Kinross
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Perth and Kinross A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Perth and Kinross
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Perth and Kinross My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Perth and Kinross
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Perth and Kinross It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Perth and Kinross
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Perth and Kinross There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Perth and Kinross
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Perth and Kinross You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Perth and Kinross
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Perth and Kinross All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Perth and Kinross
