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"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau 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 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry 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 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry 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 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And 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 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 Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Cavendish Bentinck, William Henry
