"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) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Attractions We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Attractions
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Attractions blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Attractions
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Attractions Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Attractions
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Attractions If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Attractions
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Attractions You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Attractions
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Attractions Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm 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 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Attractions
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Attractions We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Attractions
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Attractions You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Attractions
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Attractions Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Attractions
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Attractions Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Attractions
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Attractions An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Attractions
