London String of Pearls - A program put together by important public buildings along the Thames to celebrate special events such as the millennium and the Queen's Golden Jubilee. Interactive map and calendar of upcoming events.
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Holidays and Celebrations Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Holidays and Celebrations
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu 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 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Holidays and Celebrations Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Holidays and Celebrations
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Holidays and Celebrations Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Holidays and Celebrations
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Holidays and Celebrations The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Holidays and Celebrations
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Holidays and Celebrations "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Holidays and Celebrations
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Holidays and Celebrations Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Holidays and Celebrations
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Holidays and Celebrations "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Holidays and Celebrations If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Holidays and Celebrations
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Holidays and Celebrations Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Holidays and Celebrations
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Holidays and Celebrations "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Holidays and Celebrations
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Holidays and Celebrations Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Holidays and Celebrations
