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If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 a When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Boyd Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Boyd
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Boyd To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Boyd
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Boyd I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Boyd
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Boyd Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "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) Boyd
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Boyd 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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Boyd
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Boyd In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Boyd
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Boyd "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Boyd
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Boyd Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Boyd
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Boyd "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Boyd
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Boyd We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Boyd
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Boyd Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Boyd
