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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Urquhart No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Urquhart
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Urquhart Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Urquhart
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Urquhart "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Urquhart
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Urquhart Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West 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 Urquhart
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Urquhart The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Urquhart
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Urquhart 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) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Urquhart
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Urquhart Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Urquhart
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 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 "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Urquhart The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Urquhart
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 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Urquhart The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Urquhart
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Urquhart If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Urquhart
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Urquhart Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Urquhart
