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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Royal British Legion UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "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 Royal British Legion
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Royal British Legion Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Royal British Legion
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Royal British Legion Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Royal British Legion "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) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Royal British Legion I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Royal British Legion
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 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
convi "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Royal British Legion 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 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Royal British Legion
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 Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Royal British Legion Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Royal British Legion
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Royal British Legion Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Royal British Legion
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Royal British Legion A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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"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) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Royal British Legion A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Royal British Legion
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Royal British Legion Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Royal British Legion
