Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Andorra "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Andorra
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Andorra Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Andorra
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's 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 Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Andorra Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Andorra
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Andorra In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Andorra
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Andorra A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Andorra
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Andorra "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Andorra
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 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 A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Andorra A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "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) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Andorra
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a rest period between romances. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Andorra May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Andorra
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Andorra "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Andorra
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Andorra The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "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) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Andorra
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Andorra "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Andorra
