Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Newspaper "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Newspaper
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Newspaper "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Newspaper
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Newspaper Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Newspaper
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Newspaper "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Newspaper
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Newspaper Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Newspaper
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Newspaper "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Newspaper
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Newspaper "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Newspaper
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Newspaper "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Newspaper
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Newspaper If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Newspaper
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Newspaper Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Newspaper
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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Newspaper Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you never leave your marriage alive. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Newspaper
