Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Localities Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Localities
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Localities Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Localities
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "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) Localities I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Localities
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Localities Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Localities
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Localities They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "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) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Localities
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Localities I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Localities
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 Localities I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Localities
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Localities If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Localities
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "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) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Localities "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Localities
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Localities Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Localities
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Localities The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "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) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities
