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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Knighton Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Knighton
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "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..." ( The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Knighton 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 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Knighton
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Knighton A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Knighton
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Knighton "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Knighton
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 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) Knighton When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Knighton
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Knighton "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 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Knighton
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Knighton "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Knighton
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 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac 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 Knighton Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Knighton
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Knighton 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Knighton
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous 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 Knighton "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Knighton
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Knighton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Knighton
