"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "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) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Western Finland Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Western Finland
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Western Finland "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Western Finland
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Western Finland The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Western Finland
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Western Finland Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Western Finland
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Western Finland Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky 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 Western Finland
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Western Finland The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Western Finland
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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Western Finland Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Western Finland
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Western Finland Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Western Finland
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 "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Western Finland Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Western Finland
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Western Finland Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Western Finland
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Western Finland "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Western Finland
