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"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Barclay "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Barclay
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton 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 Barclay What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Barclay
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Barclay Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Barclay
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Barclay I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Barclay
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard 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 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Barclay "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Barclay
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend 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 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Barclay My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Barclay
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Barclay "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Barclay
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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Barclay Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Barclay
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Barclay Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Barclay
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Barclay Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Barclay
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Barclay Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Barclay
