To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Y "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Y
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Y "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Y
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Y You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Y
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Y It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Y
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Y 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Y
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Y "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Y
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Y "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Y
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Y If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Y
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Y Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Y
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Y Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Y
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Y There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Y
