I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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 choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Ceredigion It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ceredigion
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Ceredigion Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Ceredigion
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Ceredigion If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford 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 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Ceredigion
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Ceredigion Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Ceredigion
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Ceredigion I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Ceredigion
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Ceredigion Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Ceredigion
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Ceredigion "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Ceredigion
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Ceredigion "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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" Ceredigion
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Ceredigion A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Ceredigion
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ceredigion Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ceredigion
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Ceredigion The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "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) Ceredigion
