Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Health Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Health
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Health Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Health 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 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Health
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) 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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Health When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Health
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Health Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Health
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Health Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Health
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Health Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Health
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Health I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Health
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Health Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Health
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Health Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Health
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 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Health
