Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Kainuu "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Kainuu
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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Kainuu A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Kainuu
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Kainuu A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Kainuu
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Kainuu "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Kainuu
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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Kainuu There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Kainuu
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Kainuu We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Kainuu
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Kainuu I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Kainuu
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Kainuu I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Kainuu
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Kainuu A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Kainuu
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Kainuu There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Kainuu
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kainuu I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Kainuu
