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Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Czech Highlands "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Czech Highlands
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Czech Highlands Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Czech Highlands
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Czech Highlands Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Czech Highlands
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Czech Highlands An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Czech Highlands
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Czech Highlands If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Czech Highlands
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Czech Highlands An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Czech Highlands
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Czech Highlands "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Czech Highlands
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Czech Highlands A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Czech Highlands
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Czech Highlands "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Czech Highlands
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane 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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Czech Highlands blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Czech Highlands
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Czech Highlands Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Czech Highlands
