Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Gorazde 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 Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Gorazde
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "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) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Gorazde 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 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) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Gorazde
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Gorazde Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Gorazde
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Gorazde Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Gorazde
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Gorazde He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Gorazde
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "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) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Gorazde It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Gorazde
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Gorazde There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Gorazde
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Gorazde "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) 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 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Gorazde
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Gorazde Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Gorazde
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Gorazde For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Gorazde
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Gorazde Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Gorazde
