A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Regions The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green 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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Regions
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Regions "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Regions
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Regions Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Regions
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Regions Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Regions Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Regions
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Regions I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "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 Regions
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Regions "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Regions
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley 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 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Regions Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Regions
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Regions A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Regions
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Regions Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Regions
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Regions Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
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