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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Consumer Advocacy No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Consumer Advocacy
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 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. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Consumer Advocacy Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms 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 Consumer Advocacy
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Consumer Advocacy The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Consumer Advocacy
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland 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 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Consumer Advocacy Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Consumer Advocacy
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Consumer Advocacy The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Consumer Advocacy
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Consumer Advocacy "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Consumer Advocacy
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Consumer Advocacy Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Consumer Advocacy
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Consumer Advocacy "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Consumer Advocacy
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Consumer Advocacy Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Consumer Advocacy
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Consumer Advocacy "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Consumer Advocacy
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Consumer Advocacy "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Consumer Advocacy
