"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) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries E "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long E
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Man and wife make one fool. All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte E I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf E
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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 Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock E "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 E
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual E Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit E
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West E "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates E
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt E blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz E
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) E To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show E
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West E "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) E
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman E When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde E
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison E Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry E
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford E I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe E
