"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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.) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Event Planning Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Event Planning
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 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Event Planning What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Event Planning
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Event Planning "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Event Planning
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Event Planning My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Event Planning
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James 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 Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Event Planning "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Event Planning
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 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "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) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Event Planning "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Event Planning
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Event Planning Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Event Planning
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. 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 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Event Planning Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Event Planning
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Event Planning Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Event Planning
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Event Planning The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Event Planning
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Event Planning Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Event Planning
