Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Attractions This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Attractions
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Nietzsche Attractions "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Attractions
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Attractions Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Attractions
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Attractions 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 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Attractions
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Attractions Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Attractions
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Attractions We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Attractions
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Attractions The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Attractions
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Attractions No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Attractions
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Attractions When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Attractions
"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) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Attractions Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence 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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Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Attractions Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Attractions
