Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Council Tax "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Council Tax
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Council Tax When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Council Tax
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 know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Council Tax "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Council Tax
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Council Tax Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Council Tax
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Council Tax The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Council Tax
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Council Tax The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Council Tax
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Council Tax It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Council Tax
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Council Tax "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Council Tax
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Council Tax The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Council Tax
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Council Tax "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe 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 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Council Tax
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Council Tax Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Council Tax
