An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Games There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Games
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 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 "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Games The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Games
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Games I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Games
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Games We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Games
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx 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 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Games Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Games
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Games The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Games
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Games "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Games
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Games "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Games
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Games 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,
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Games
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Games 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 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Games
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Games Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Games
