Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Regions Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Regions
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 Regions "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) .. 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 Regions
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Regions It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Regions
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Regions "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Regions
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Regions "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Regions
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Regions A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Regions
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Regions Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Regions
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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Regions I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Regions
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Regions Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Regions
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Regions And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Regions
