blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) 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.
-- Crow Computers and Internet Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Computers and Internet
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Computers and Internet "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Computers and Internet
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Computers and Internet Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Computers and Internet
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Computers and Internet The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Computers and Internet
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Computers and Internet Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins He who limps is still walking.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Computers and Internet Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Computers and Internet
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Computers and Internet Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Computers and Internet
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Computers and Internet
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Computers and Internet "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Computers and Internet
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Computers and Internet I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Computers and Internet
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Computers and Internet "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet
