"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Memorial Pages 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 "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Memorial Pages
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Memorial Pages Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Memorial Pages
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Memorial Pages It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Memorial Pages
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Memorial Pages The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Memorial Pages
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Memorial Pages "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Memorial Pages
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Memorial Pages My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Memorial Pages
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Memorial Pages 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 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Memorial Pages
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Memorial Pages The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Memorial Pages
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Memorial Pages It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Memorial Pages
"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) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Memorial Pages If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb 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 Memorial Pages
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Memorial Pages I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Memorial Pages
