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I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Castles Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "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 Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Castles
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Castles "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Castles
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan 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 A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Castles Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Castles
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Castles If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "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) "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) Castles
"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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Castles We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Castles
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Castles "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Castles
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Castles Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Castles
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Castles Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Castles
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Castles I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Castles
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Castles I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Castles
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Castles "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Castles
