Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Localities "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Localities
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Localities Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Localities
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Localities When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Localities
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Localities
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Localities "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Localities
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Localities Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Localities
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Localities There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Localities
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Localities Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Localities
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Localities "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Localities
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Localities There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Localities
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses 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 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Localities "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Localities
