Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Weddings The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Weddings
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Weddings Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Weddings
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Weddings "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe 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 Weddings
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Weddings 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 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Weddings
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Weddings They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Weddings
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker 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 "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Weddings Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Weddings
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Weddings There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Weddings
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Weddings "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Weddings
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Weddings It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Weddings
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Weddings Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Weddings
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Weddings Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Weddings
