Mohamed Al Fayed - Information on issues near to Mr Al Fayed's heart, his business and charitable interests and of course on Dodi and Diana, delivered with a touch of self-irony.
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle A
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous A If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams A With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) A
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem A Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words A
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations A I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) A A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) A
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage A Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle A
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen A The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide A
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger A The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 A
