If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Politics If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Politics
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Politics There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Politics No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Politics 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 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Politics
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Politics If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein 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 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 Politics
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Politics I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Politics
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Politics "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Politics
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Politics Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Politics
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Politics Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Politics
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Politics The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Politics
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "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, Alice in Wonderland Politics In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Politics
