Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain 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 "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Architecture >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Architecture
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Architecture "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Architecture
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Architecture Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Architecture
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "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) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Architecture Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Architecture
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Architecture If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Architecture
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Architecture History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Architecture
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Architecture blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Architecture
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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Architecture Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Architecture
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous 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 Architecture By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Architecture "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Architecture
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Architecture The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Architecture
