Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Localities No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Localities
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Localities
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Localities
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Localities "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Localities
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Localities Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Localities
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Localities "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Localities
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Localities Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Localities
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Localities The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Localities
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Localities When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Localities
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Localities 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 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Localities
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Localities "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) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Localities
