"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Health "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Health
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Health "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) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Health
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Health "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Health
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Health Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Health
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Health
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Health If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Health
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh 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 am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Health "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Health
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Health "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Health
"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) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Health "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) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Health
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making 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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Health Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Health
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Health "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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