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In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Sailing Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Sailing
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Sailing To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Sailing
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Sailing "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Sailing
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Sailing Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Sailing
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Sailing You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Sailing
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Sailing Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Sailing
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Sailing Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Sailing
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Sailing Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Sailing
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Sailing Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Sailing
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Sailing "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 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Sailing
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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" Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Sailing 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Sailing
