Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Genealogy If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Genealogy
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Genealogy Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Genealogy
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Genealogy There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Genealogy
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Genealogy .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Genealogy
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Genealogy The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Genealogy
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Genealogy Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Genealogy
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 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams 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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Genealogy 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 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Genealogy
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Genealogy There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Genealogy
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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Genealogy "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Genealogy
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Genealogy And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Genealogy
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Genealogy In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Genealogy
