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"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 Religion Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Religion
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James 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 Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Religion If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Religion
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Religion Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Religion
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Religion blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Religion
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Religion
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Religion All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Religion
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Religion It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Religion
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "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" Religion Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Religion
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Religion I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Religion
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Religion An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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 Religion
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Religion "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Religion
