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Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Chessington World of Adventures One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Chessington World of Adventures
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Chessington World of Adventures Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Chessington World of Adventures
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "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, Alice in Wonderland Chessington World of Adventures People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Chessington World of Adventures
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Chessington World of Adventures Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Chessington World of Adventures
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Chessington World of Adventures A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Chessington World of Adventures
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Chessington World of Adventures "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Chessington World of Adventures
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones 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 a A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Chessington World of Adventures Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Chessington World of Adventures
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Chessington World of Adventures Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Chessington World of Adventures
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Chessington World of Adventures When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Chessington World of Adventures
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Chessington World of Adventures Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Chessington World of Adventures
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chessington World of Adventures Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Chessington World of Adventures
