"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry >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 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken South Downs Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill South Downs
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman South Downs The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown 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 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) South Downs
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) South Downs The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner South Downs
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All South Downs Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) South Downs "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) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) South Downs
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw South Downs Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow South Downs
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) 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 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" South Downs I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) South Downs
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller South Downs "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce South Downs
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) South Downs All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows South Downs
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th 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 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) South Downs 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 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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson South Downs
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) South Downs I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton South Downs
