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Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Broxburn "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Broxburn
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Broxburn "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Broxburn
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Broxburn Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Broxburn
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Broxburn I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Broxburn
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Broxburn "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Broxburn
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Broxburn 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. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Broxburn
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) My other wife is beautiful. Broxburn The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Broxburn
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Broxburn The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Broxburn
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Broxburn I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Broxburn
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Broxburn He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Broxburn
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Broxburn He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Broxburn
