I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Cabins Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Cabins
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Cabins "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Cabins
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Cabins Marriage is a rest period between romances. I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Cabins
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Cabins "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Cabins
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Cabins 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 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Cabins
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Cabins The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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-- George H. Mead 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 Cabins
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Cabins A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Cabins
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Cabins "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) 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 don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Cabins
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Cabins He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Cabins
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Cabins Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Cabins I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Cabins
