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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 We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Varkaus A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Varkaus
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Varkaus You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Varkaus
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Varkaus I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Varkaus
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Varkaus "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Varkaus
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Varkaus He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Varkaus
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Varkaus Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Varkaus
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Varkaus All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Varkaus
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Varkaus Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Varkaus
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Varkaus Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Varkaus
Man and wife make one fool. "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Varkaus An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Varkaus
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Varkaus The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Varkaus
