Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blackpool Pleasure Beach "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Blackpool Pleasure Beach "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Blackpool Pleasure Beach
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Blackpool Pleasure Beach It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Blackpool Pleasure Beach Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Blackpool Pleasure Beach "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Blackpool Pleasure Beach
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Blackpool Pleasure Beach As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Blackpool Pleasure Beach I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Blackpool Pleasure Beach
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Blackpool Pleasure Beach I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Blackpool Pleasure Beach
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Blackpool Pleasure Beach "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle 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 Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Blackpool Pleasure Beach Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Blackpool Pleasure Beach
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Blackpool Pleasure Beach The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Blackpool Pleasure Beach
