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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Dustin Farnum: Why, yesterday, I had the audience glued to their seats! Oliver Herford: Wonderful! Wonderful! Clever of you to think of it! -- Brian Herbert, "Classic Comebacks" | |
| Many enraged psychiatrists are inciting a weary butcher. The butcher is weary and tired because he has cut meat and steak and lamb for hours and weeks. He does not desire to chant about anything with raving psychiatrists, but he sings about his gingivectomist, he dreams about a single cosmologist, he thinks about his dog. The dog is named Herbert. -- Racter, "The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed" | |
| Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. - Gerard Straub, television producer and author (stolen from Frank Herbert??) | |
| Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover | |
| Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. -- Frank Herbert, "Children of Dune" | |
| The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used. -- Herbert von Fritzlar | |
| An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. -- A.P. Herbert | |
| Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've no idea what money's for -- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government! -- A.P. Herbert | |
| A city is a large community where people are lonesome together -- Herbert Prochnow | |
| The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit hits a pedestrian. -- Frank Herbert, "The White Plague" | |
| Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself. -- Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune" | |
| One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. -- George Herbert | |
| Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. -- Frank Herbert, "Children of Dune" | |
| Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. -- Muad'dib [Frank Herbert, "Dune"] | |
| Sorry for mailing this article, I've obviously made a typo (168!=186) that's the price for being up all night and doing some "quick" checks before you go to bed .... -- Herbert Rosmanith <herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at> | |
| About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover | |
| The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. -- Herbert V. Prochnow | |
