Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde R All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender R
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X R A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe R
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain R As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) R
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge R Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) R
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) R "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) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy 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 R
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James R In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 R
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado R As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along R
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) R Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe R
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky R Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood R
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) R A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy R
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle R Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard R
