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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Krivoklat To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Krivoklat
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Krivoklat Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Krivoklat
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Krivoklat "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Krivoklat
My other wife is beautiful. I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "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') Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Krivoklat Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Krivoklat
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Krivoklat "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Krivoklat
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Krivoklat Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone 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 Krivoklat
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Krivoklat Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Krivoklat
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Krivoklat Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Krivoklat
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "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) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Krivoklat In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Krivoklat
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Krivoklat "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Krivoklat
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Krivoklat "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Krivoklat
