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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Newcastle Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Newcastle
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Newcastle He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "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 Newcastle
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Newcastle Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Newcastle
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Newcastle When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Newcastle
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Newcastle "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Newcastle
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Newcastle Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Newcastle
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Newcastle 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 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Newcastle
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Newcastle Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "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 Newcastle
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 "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Newcastle I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Newcastle
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Newcastle As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Newcastle
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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" Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Newcastle "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Newcastle
