Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Suomussalmi "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Suomussalmi
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "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, ignorance, g May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. My other wife is beautiful. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Suomussalmi A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Suomussalmi
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Suomussalmi Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Suomussalmi
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Suomussalmi When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Suomussalmi
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Suomussalmi A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Suomussalmi
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Suomussalmi 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 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Suomussalmi
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Suomussalmi Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Suomussalmi
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Suomussalmi Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Suomussalmi
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Suomussalmi Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Suomussalmi
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Suomussalmi To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Suomussalmi
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Suomussalmi "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Suomussalmi
