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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Frymburk People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Frymburk
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Frymburk 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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Frymburk
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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Frymburk A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Frymburk
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Frymburk "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Frymburk
"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) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Frymburk "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Frymburk
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Frymburk It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Frymburk
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Frymburk "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Frymburk
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "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' The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Frymburk All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Frymburk
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Frymburk Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Frymburk
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Frymburk What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Frymburk
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 Frymburk Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Frymburk
