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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Glasgow Prestwick International Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Glasgow Prestwick International
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Glasgow Prestwick International "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Glasgow Prestwick International
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Glasgow Prestwick International Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Glasgow Prestwick International
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "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 Glasgow Prestwick International "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 "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Glasgow Prestwick International
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Glasgow Prestwick International Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Glasgow Prestwick International
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Glasgow Prestwick International The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Glasgow Prestwick International
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Glasgow Prestwick International Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Glasgow Prestwick International
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Glasgow Prestwick International ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Glasgow Prestwick International
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Glasgow Prestwick International A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Glasgow Prestwick International
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Glasgow Prestwick International To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Glasgow Prestwick International
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Glasgow Prestwick International "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Glasgow Prestwick International
