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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Thatcher, Margaret Hilda If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Thatcher, Margaret Hilda the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Thatcher, Margaret Hilda "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Thatcher, Margaret Hilda "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Thatcher, Margaret Hilda The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
