It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Parks Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Parks
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Parks 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) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Parks
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Parks "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Parks
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Parks "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Parks
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Parks "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Parks
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Parks Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Parks
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Parks "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) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) 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 Parks
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "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) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Parks Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost 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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Parks
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Parks And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Parks
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Parks If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Parks
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Parks 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 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Parks
