PmUjb9@A @"Data.appA  "Arial  " %: pz "Arial "Arial "Arialo "Arial1@ .123@76@^ So little done, so much to do. Rhodes, Cecil@@ fConditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.Feather, Williaml@;#Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.Freud, Sigmund0C@O&@;6If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.Hawking, Coleman0j@ ;&The end of labour is to gain leisure. Aristotle0  @-;KThe trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. Tomlin, Lily0  z@;,I don't even know what street Canada is on. Capone, Al0  SB@w10 @e=AIt doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. Wedlock - the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.Do you know why God withheld the sense of humour from women? That we may love you instead of laughing at you.A  "Arial',,-,*),*+0#+"/-0'*-,2,,1.,)-+)/'& "Arial^@ FAn honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.Cameron, SimonSB@@a;MLife, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.Leacock, Stephen Butler0@;>Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.Marcus Aurelius0u.AA fig for those by law protected!Liberty's a glorious feast!Courts for cowards were erectedChurches built to please the priest!A man's a man for a' that.Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. Selkirk Grace The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy.A "Arial2U$!4T*3T 8W$;"5!<[$5X":X#8^'c "Arial"Arial&"Arial@);HUnder capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.Polish Proverb0 @eRA  "Arial -=829 \ YE7"Arial "ArialY"Arial "ArialD "Arial!BA man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going The English law of real property is a tortuous and ungodly jumbleMr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.The people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged. to a cheering crowdBThe graveyards are full of indispensable menDeliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little. Now at last our child is just like all children. the death of his daughter Anne, who had Down's Syndrome The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.One does not arrest Voltaire. why he had not arrested Jean-Paul Sartre for urging French soldiers in Algeria to desert . Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.Treaties are like roses and young girls - they last while they last.@ `5PAACVChColA9 dColB9ColA10 2ColB10ColA11 ColA12 2ColB12 Index1ColA9 @ ;iThe optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.Cabell, James Branch0FAPrivate enterprise makes it its business to court the consumer and to satisfy his most urgent demands; government agencies denounce the consumer as a troublesome user of their resources. Only a government, for example, would look fondly upon the prohibition of private cars as a solution for the problem of congested streets AMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.@);?It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.Conrad, Joseph0SB@?Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. West, Mae0  Taglines0 @@e;WIf all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.Pascal, Blaise0&A MHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree uponBonaparte, Napoleon How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!France, AnatoleASon, no matter how far you travel, or how smart you get, always remember this: someday, somewhere, a guy is going to come to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is never broken, and this guy is going to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out of this deck and squirt cider in your ear, But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you do you are going to get an ear full of cider.AA bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.A  "Arial;U'C?  c ID+[Q5!="Arial "Arial"Arial "Ariala"Arial "ArialB"Arial "ArialAClass has a sense of humour. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors orAI never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and mAI'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.~@iTable1ColA8ColB8ColA9 dColB9ColA10 2ColB10ColA11 ColA12 2ColB12 Index1ColA9 SBAA wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labour the bread it has earned. This i ?AWe hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.gH`The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam to-day.' `It MUST come sometimes to "jam do-day,"' Alice objected. `No, it can't,' said the Queen. `It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'`Always speak the truth -- think before you speak -- and write it down afterwards.'  Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.  Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die Ever drifting down the stream Lingering in the golden gleam Life, what is it but a dream?  "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head-- Do you think, at your age, it is right?"  "In my youth," Father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again."  "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door-- Pray, what is the reason of that?"  "In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, "I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box-- Allow me to sell you a couple?"  "You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak-- Pray how did you manage to do it?"  "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life."  "You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose-- What made you so awfully clever?"  "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," Said his father; "don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"ARe: Neil Gaiman, and Modern Comics The word `masturbate' was censored out of one of the stories. He said Karen Berger told him, `It is official policy. People don't masturbate in the DC universe.' To which Neil replied, `That's why they all wear funny co ???AI never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.  A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?Fish fuck in it. reason for not drinking waterAnybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes. during his last illnessStart every day off with a smile and get it over with.?AThere is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. The good of the people is the chief law. O tempora ! O mores ! What times! What customs! Cui bono ? To whose profit?To add a library to a house is to give that house a soulHe does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.2A'('UUU" Garamond`L\cef dPSteven Shone's Collection of Quotations\cMefed3.A@a;NI believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? Cocteau, Jean0 SBAWhen two people are under the influence of the most violent,most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions,they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.AI place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and ?@@6P5`VCAC @eACwEThe Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.AThere is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our ?@ fed3.AAS#= #=X(- uL@ ;"Expenditure rises to meet income.Parkinson, C. Northcote0;>Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.Bennis, Warren G.0AIt is not the critic who counts, nor the person who points out how the strong person stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is actually marred by dust and sweat.@It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come and do not see the things which happen today. We see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forests of prejudices that beset us.@;You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER. Zappa, Frank0  eat.2DYouth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. Every woman should marry - and no man.Thank you for the manuscript; I shall lose no time in reading it. customary reply to those who sent him unsolicited manuscripts If a traveller were informed that such a man was leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshipped an insect. of Lord John Russell Her Majesty is not a subject. to Gladstone's taunt that Disraeli could make a joke out of any subject, including Queen Victoria.No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert. on his deathbed, declining an offer of a visit from Queen Victoria Damn your principles! Stick to your party. Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of menA Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.A precedent embalms a principle.AThe society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.@@ ;)Practice is the best of all instructors.Syrus, Publilius0 Machiavelli0  Various0AMen are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind b ?ACrazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people ???? ABy and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgement of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgement.AThere is a theory that states that if anyone ever discoversexactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another which states that this has already happened.AFinish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in -- forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day -- begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.AFear of crime is having an insidious, yet significant effect on society. Streets are abandoned, evening activity is avoided, property is wired up with alarms and, where available, weapons are acquired. Internal perimeters are multiplying as we create a fortressed neo-medieval societyAOnly Connect And of all means to regeneration remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissues with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil. Leonard was driven straight through its torments and emerged pure, but enfeebled - a better man, who would never lose control of himself again, but also a smaller man, who had less to control Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoonAVery few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wringfrom the unknown the answers they have already shaped intheir own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to a whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.AReligious Views of Life: Taoism: Shit happens. Confucianism: Confucius say, shit happens. Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit. Zen: What is the sound of shit happening ? Hinduism: This shit happened before. Islam: If shit happens, it is the w ??????2A  "Arial #'4ADDu7.w8>U5 "ArialATo laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether bya healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.HAThe legal profession is qualified by its attributes, and even by its faults, to neutralise the vices inherent in popular government.Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.AShake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servility crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be o ???????xA;The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Roosevelt, Theodore0;?The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition. Seitz, Nick0  3AI have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, a part of you knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier when they're gone. I don't know...maybe I just miss my friend.AWhen we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy, we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the capitalists and entrepreneurs, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the market place.A "Arial "Arial6NV>}8\l L|DuUYUg"Arial=H"Arial*AAs the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts We are what we think.All that we are arisesWith our thoughts.With our thoughts,We make our world. Be a lamp unto yourselves. Be a refuge unto yourselves. Seek no refuge outside yourselvesAWe grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till ????..AThe danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. AI have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God has granted it  crasez l'infme!  I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say itThe best is the enemy of the good.AFar better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat Theodore Roosevelt..A  "Arial "Arial "Arial"Arial$3[B&0>BT+,FC7@~@iTable1ColA8ColB8ColA9 dColB9ColA10 2ColB10ColA11 ColA12 2ColB12 Index1ColA9\because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat Theodore Roosevelt.zB"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family.Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars,compact disc players and electrical tin openers......Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choosesitting on that couch watching mind numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.....But why would I want to do a thing like that?"BIn Germany, Gunther Burpus remained wedged in his front door cat flap for two days because passers-by thought he was a piece of installation art. Mr. Burpus, 41, of Bremen, was using the flap because he had mislaid his keys. Unfortunately he was spotted by a group of student pranksters who removed his trousers and pants, painted his bottom bright blue and stuck a daffodil between his buttocks and erected a sign saying "Germany Resurgent, an Essay in Street Art. Please give generously." Passers-by assumed that Mr. Burpus' screams were part of the act and it was only when an old woman complained to the police that he was finally freed. "I kept calling for help, he said, but people just said Very good! Very Clever! and threw coins at me."BHard though it is to know people, there are ways:- First is to question them concerning right and wrong, to observe their ideas. Second is to exhaust all their arguments, to see how they change Third is to consult with them about strategy, to see how perceptive they are Fourth is to announce that there is trouble, to see how brave they are Fifth is to get them drunk, to observe their nature Sixth is to present them with the prospect of gain, to see how modest they are Seventh is to give them a task to do within a specific time, to see how trustworthy they are. Those who fight well do not lose. Those who lose well do not perish.@;America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.Clemenceau, Georges0SB>,FC7@AWe have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? There's always something fishy about the French. I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known at all. Dear Mrs A., hooray hooray, At last you are deflowered On this as every other day I love you. Noel Coward. to Gertrude Lawrence on her marriage to Richard S. AldrichHAOne cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery. on an office shared with Dorothy Parker I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shineSo who's in a hurry? asked whether he knew that drinking was a slow death . Streets full of water. Please advise. sent to his editor on arriving in Venice@BgHI;KA law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.Beecher, Henry Ward0;A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.Carter, Rosalynn0;&A man is known by the books he reads.Emerson, Ralph Waldo0;(A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.Hitchcock, Raymond0jA "ArialmB DB3^NX$2 "Arialj "Arial "Arial "Arial "Arial "Arial1 "ArialAThe rules of strategy are few and simple. They may be learned in a week. They may be taught by familiar illustrations or a dozen diagrams. But such knowledge will no more teach a man to lead an army like Napoleon than a knowledge of grammar will teach him to write like Gibbon.APower is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorshipWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.DIf any reader of this book is in the grip of some habit of which he is deeply ashamed, I advise him not to give way to it in secret but to do it on television. No-one will pass him with averted gaze on the other side of the street. People will cross the road at the risk of losing their own lives in order to say `We saw you on the telly'. The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. I became one of the stately homos of England. I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned. The...problem which confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a `real' man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who `goes with' other men is not what they would call a real man.AAll happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion There are times when one would give a whole month for sixpence and others when you wouldn't sell half an hour at any price. The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.@  "Arial "Arial "ArialilFPCIJ`~<kMG K W;UACMf;MC/ ,  mmeOfAEt'P2f*7 "Arial"ArialJ"Arial "Arial"Arial "Arial "Arial "Arial>C `e;FIt's hard to make a program foolproof because fools are so ingenious.Anon.0;LIt's hard to seize the day when you first have to grapple with the morning.Anon.0;ZIt's not what we don't know that hurts us, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so. Twain, Mark0  ;mIt's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.Fuller, Millard0;+It's the good loser who finally loses out. Hubbard, Kin0  ;7It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. Weaver, Earl0  |CB y59;IIf you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the precipitate.Anon.0;ZIf a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.Kennedy, John F.0;JIn a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.Peter, Laurence0In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until it's too late.Bruce Sterling0 Computers0  ;qIn a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else. Seeger, Pete0  APut not your trust in princes, bureaucrats or generals, they will plead expedience while spilling your blood from a safe distance.It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.The injury to a man must be such, that we need not fear his vengeance.4EHe who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty. He who is satisfied with his lot is rich; he who goes on acting with energy has a firm will. Therefore the Sage manages his affairs without ado,And spreads his teaching without talking.He denies nothing to the teeming things.He rears them, but lays no claim to them.He does his work, but sets no store by it.He accomplishes his task, but does not dwell on it.And yet it is just because he does not dwell on itThat nobody can ever take it away from him. Welcome disgrace as a pleasant surprisePrize calamities as your own body! When you are lacking in faith, others will be unfaithful to you. Only he who knows what is enough, will always have enough. Learning consists in daily accumulating. The practice of the Tao consists in daily diminishing  He who knows does not speak.He who speaks does not know. That a man is straying from the right path,Is no reason that he should be cast away To realise that our knowledge is ignorance,This is a noble insight.To regard our ignorance as knowledge,This is mental sickness.Only when we are sick of our sicknessShall we cease to be sickThe sage is not sick, being sick of sicknessThis is the secret of healthBSince the natural inclinations of mankind are so evil that its liberty must be taken away, how is it that the inclinations of the socialists are good? Are not the legislators and their agents part of the human race? Do they believe themselves moulded from another clay than the rest of mankind? They say that society, left to itself, heads inevitably for destruction because its instincts are perverse. They demand the power to stop mankind from sliding down this fatal declivity and to impose a better direction on it. If, then, they have received from Heaven intelligence and virtues that place them beyond and above mankind, let them show their credentials. They want to be shepherds, and they want us to be their sheep.AFor every problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrongGoverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping, and unintelligent.ASpeak for England. to Arthur Greenwood, Labour Party spokesman, before he began to speak in a House of Commons debate immediately preceding the declaration of war, 2 Sept 1939 You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! to Neville Chamberlain using Oliver CROMWELL's words , House of Commons, May 1940AIf God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish himSlavery may change its form or its name - its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity...slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs; nowadays, they are called wage earnersFBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse The people never give up their liberties but under some delusionExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success. I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.The use of force alone is but temporary . It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. The people are the masters. And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman. The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.EFew people do business well who do nothing elseBe wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Take the tone of the company that you are in. Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing. to his son, 16 Oct 1747 I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves. I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond. Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. The chapter of knowledge is very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one. Make him a bishop, and you will silence him at once. asked what steps might be taken to control the evangelical preacher George Whitefield(AThere is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.Slim, Sir William0War0BNo, our civilisation will endure and grow more complex. Man will live in the air and below the water. Preventive medicine will develop until old age shall become the sole cause of death. Education and a more socialistic scheme of society will do away with crime. The English-speaking races will unite, with their centre in the United States. Gradually the European States will follow their example. War will become rare, but more terrible. The forms of religion will be abandoned, but the essence will be maintained; so that one universal creed will embrace the whole civilised earth, which will preach trust in that central power, which will be as unknown then as now. The Stark Munro LettersAI'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today'. But, dammit, I was going to go up theASome books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm. To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say Is a keen observer of life, The word Intellectual suggests straight away A man who's untrue to his wife. If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted.!AThe golden rule is that there are no golden rules Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.AA musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. The English may not like music - but they absolutely love the noise it makes. I have recently been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away..AThe truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it An ideal cannot wait for its realisation to prove its validityA man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.Man has an inexhaustible faculty for lying, especially to himself.(ogress depends on the unreasonable man.Cnȡ5]Q;JA dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.Sagan, Francois0;A Frenchman must always be talking, whether or not he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.Johnson, Samuel0;@A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.Anon.0;PA friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.Ralph Waldo Emerson0;6A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. Fonda, Jane0  ;IA hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.Thomajan, Puzant Kevork0AIn most cases, American confusion over accents can be put down to an insensitivity of the ear unequalled anywhere on earth. Only adders have worse hearing than Americans, and they at least take the precaution of shunning society Dancing is a wonderful thing not to be able to do have recently been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.AAnything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.Most women are not so young as they are painted. Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry. You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.AFar or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanished gods to me appear;And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And Ithe hymn the Bramin sings."$y for lying, especially to himself.AJUDGE WILLIS. You are extremely offensive, young man. F. E. SMITH. As a matter of fact, we both are, and the only difference between us is that I am trying to be, and you can't help it. JUDGE WILLIS. What do you suppose I am on the Bench for, Mr Smith? SMITH. It is not for me, Your Honour, to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence. The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.ATime is nature's way of stopping everything from happening at once I have a low threshold of death I don't want to achieve immortality through my work ... I want to achieve it by not dying.I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers. My brain? It's my second favourite organ. It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.BScientists were preparing an experiment to ask the ultimate question. They had worked for months gathering one each of every computer that was built. Finally the big day was at hand. All the computers were linked together. They asked the question, "Is there a God?". Lights started blinking, flashing and blinking some more. Suddenly, there was a loud crash, a bolt of lightning came down from the sky, struck the computers and welded all the connections permanently together."There is now", came the reply. ANo, I shall have mistresses. to Queen Caroline's suggestion, as she lay on her deathbed, that he should marry again after her deathOh! he is mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals. to advisors who told him that General James Wolfe was mad able to do5AA good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.AYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil Hoffer, Eric0  Various0 YYou can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Capone, AlrADo your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.Patton, General George S.0Various0@Its relationship to democratic institutions is that of the death watch beetle - it is not a Party, it is a conspiracy.the Communist Party We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time.No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. I stuffed their mouths with gold! how he persuaded doctors not to oppose the introduction of the National Health ServiceGAEverything in life tends towards an end, and anyone rebelling against that end merely acts foolishly. The only question is what the end actually means, what change it makes in a world from which nothing can disappear, not a speck of dust, not a single surge of compassion or tenderness, not a single act of hatred or betrayal.@1vCausley, Charles0Hawthorn White0` 31NPoetry0m^ T.TpX.TP\.T@.T0 ,Ta-Tpe-T`i-TPZZ1WYY3Y <Aquinas, Thomas NCapote, Truman (1924-84)VQU@-T -T-T.TV /TP/TT/TpX/TP .T.T/T/T 0W0W0W0W 01W0 S2W@ W2W [2W @YP @O1W 1W0 01Wp 1W62Abraham Lincoln"The Savage Curtain Stardate 5906.5TP54Agar, H. 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The English and Americans dislike only some Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think. Come in, you Anglo-Saxon swineAnd drink of my Algerian wine.'Twill turn your eyeballs black and blue, And damn well good enough for you. as an advert on the window of a Paris cafe (the owner of which could not speak English) Thank you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop! to a nun nursing him on his deathbed8A "Arial*.*3,.*+154+.1-41/,.+1--6312/(,10BLOHG"Arialn.^ B0TE0UPJ0V0N0W ~Gabor, Zsa Zsa (1919- )I2Gibbs, Willard W :Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) (1892-1964)AJung ChangM/T/T/T/T ,T,T,T,T5-5-(R2-~)S1-]@James, WilliamA4Jean-Paul SartreCp Joan CrawfordL06Jules de GaultierI0S 2W 2W2W02Wp224UnknownR5UnknownTp4UnknownW5'UnknownY4` > Leacock, Stephen ButlerL4JLombardi, Vince W LMackay, HarveyI Manske, Jr., Fred A.T@@ <Harper , CliffordL >Hayes, Helen IpHeine, Heinrich (1797-1856)OPHenry II.@ Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)L pBeethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)W0 sBenchley, Robert Charles (1889-1945)O0 uBentham, Jeremy E@ zBierce, Ambrose Gwinnett (1842-1914)I |Bissonette David I Bonaparte, NapoleonA Bonaparte, NapoleonH 0 yConfucius (K'ung Fu-tzu; 551-479 BC)W {Cook, Peter (1937- 1997)I Crisp, Quentin (?1910- )I Darrow, Clarence T   A Flaton, KenI Ford, HenryA |Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90)R 3Friedrich NietzscheP 3`3Carroll, Lewis`p pCharles, Prince of Wales (1948- )Yp qChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773)F4sChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965)T EYou have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. Well, frankly, the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle and let them walk all over me, or whether I should just say OK, I get the message, and do myself in. I mean, let's face it, I'm in a no-win situation, and quite honestly, I'm so stuffed up to here with the whole stupid mess that I can tell you I've just got a good mind to take the easy way out. That's the bottom line. The only problem is, what happens if I find, when I've bumped myself off, there's some kind of...ah, you know, all that mystical stuff about when you die, you might find you're still - know what I mean? the presentation of the Thomas Cranmer Schools Prize (1989), suggesting a possible modern English version of Hamlet's soliloquy. The original version is: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.dBMan that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.In the midst of life we are in death. Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things we ought not to have done.Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live? To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.h gold! how he persuaded doctors not to oppose the introduction of the National Health Servicekhe precaution of shunning society Dancing is a wonderful thing not to be able to docially to himself.0FWhen you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart. Study the past, if you would divine the future. Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. It is rare indeed for a man with cunning words and an ingratiating face to be benevolent Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall  Make it your guiding principle to do your best for others and to be trustworthy in what you say. Do not accept as a friend anyone who is not as good as you. When you make a mistake do not be afraid of mending your ways In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man There are nine things the gentleman turns his thought to: to seeing clearly when using his eyes, to hearing acutely when using his ears, to looking cordial when it comes to his countenance, to appearing respectful when it comes to his demeanour, to being conscientious when he speaks, to being reverent when he performs his duties, to seeking advice when he is in doubt, to the consequences when he is enraged, and to what is right at the sight of gain One does not explain away what is already done; one does not argue against what is already accomplished, and one does not condemn what has already gone by Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble withoutI hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.&BAnyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty - The obedient must be slavesThings do not change; we change. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy Any fool can make a rule - and every fool will mind it It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hearThat government is best which governs least.n a measure that would prevent the loss of the planet's entire output 200 years from now.:shop! to a nun nursing him on his deathbed CR-ܹ;,All easy problems have already been solved.Anon.0;All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Edmund Burke0  ;All life's answers are on TV.Homer Simpson "The Simpsons"0;oAll men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. Locke, John0  ;All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right.Anon.0;^All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Maeterlinck0yA  Asking who ought to be the boss' is like asking who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.History is more or less bunk.Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right Ford, Henry;A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.Stalin, Joseph0Death0A"Taking a herd north, you have to trail across nearly a thousand miles of the wrinkled skin of earth over terrain as strange and different as paradise above from the hot place below. Mostly, it's too rough or too steep, to wet or dry, too hot or cold, too windy, too lonely, but you take what comes and find a way to move the beeves on through. At least you try. My name is Gil Favor, trailboss."A!;The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.Manske, Jr., Fred A.0;gThere are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.Lyall, Charles J.C.0yE]-%;I keep seeing lousy films and saying to myself, 'I don't know anything about movie making, but I couldn't do any worse than this'.Kubrick, Stanley0;OI like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.Emerson, Ralph Waldo0;FI like to give home-made gifts. Which one of the kids would you like?Anon.0;II love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.Osgood, Samuel0;sI love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.Saki (H.H. Munro)0;GI love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.Adams, Douglas0;uI may argue with my brother, but I fight beside my brother against my cousin, and with my cousin against a stranger.Old Arab Adage0;I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.Buckley, William F.0@glAMEM;CIt is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. Mencken, H.L.0 ;gIt is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.Jerome, K. Jerome0;PIt is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit. Wooden, John0  ;>It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.Arthur Calwell0;sIt is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.Gogh, Vincent Van0;DIt is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Adler, Alfred0 ;QIt is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.Mencken, H. L.0;NIt is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.Bagehot, Walter0;It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of Nthe world.Jefferson, Thomas0 A"All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey;This Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd long;In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute Though all the realms of nonsense, absolute."spair around benights me."jDIf you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater that they. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it. Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. Apologize, v.i. To lay foundation for a future offence.Life, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disapointments.Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of others.(all from "Devil's Dictionary")E-~eE%;]If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.Howe, Ed0 ;&If you hear an onion ring, answer it.Anon.0;4If you judge poeple, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa0 WIf you love something, let it go. If it comes back... it's probably dependent on you.Anon.0Love0;QIf you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. Wilson, Earl0  ;IIf you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. Ash, Marykay0  ;4If you want to get a good idea, get a lot of ideas.Pauling, Linus0;qIf you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.Rockefeller Jr, John D.0;2If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.Watson, Thomas0;@If you were asked a hypothetical question, would you answer it?Anon.0AOne should forgive your enemies, but not before they are hanged.Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would be never to have been born at all. I just met X in the street, I stopped for a moment to exchange ideas, and now I feel like a complete idiot. It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of another Jew? God will pardon me. It is His trade.eA;!In the long run we are all dead.Keynes, John Maynard0kIn war there is no substitute for victory.There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.MacArthur, General Douglas0Various0@  Table1 QuotedAuthor dd6Name/Subject: 2dBDate Entrd/Edit: d&Category: 2d( all the realms of nonsense, absolute."EAA woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live.Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakepeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a billious pigeon.FzmQ!q};YChrist died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?Feiffer, Jules0;