"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Expatriate Life My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Expatriate Life
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Expatriate Life "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 Expatriate Life
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Expatriate Life "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Expatriate Life
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge 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 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Expatriate Life Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Expatriate Life
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Expatriate Life The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Expatriate Life
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "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" Expatriate Life "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Expatriate Life
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Expatriate Life Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Expatriate Life
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Expatriate Life All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Expatriate Life
"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 man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Expatriate Life "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Expatriate Life
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Expatriate Life You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Expatriate Life
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Expatriate Life As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Expatriate Life
