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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Vejle Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Vejle
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Vejle "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Vejle
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Vejle The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Vejle
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Vejle Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Vejle
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Vejle "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Vejle
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Vejle "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Vejle
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Vejle "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Vejle
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Vejle 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 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Vejle
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Vejle Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Vejle
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi 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 There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Vejle "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Vejle
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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. 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 In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Vejle We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Vejle
