"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your 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 Presteigne Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Presteigne
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Presteigne Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous 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 Presteigne
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Presteigne Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Presteigne
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Presteigne Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Presteigne
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Presteigne "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Presteigne
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Presteigne The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Presteigne
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Presteigne Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Presteigne
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses 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 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Presteigne The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Presteigne
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Presteigne Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Presteigne
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "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) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Presteigne Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Presteigne
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Presteigne I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Presteigne
