"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Ostrobothnia "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ostrobothnia
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, It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Ostrobothnia "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Ostrobothnia
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Ostrobothnia "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Ostrobothnia
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Ostrobothnia The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Ostrobothnia
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Ostrobothnia Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Ostrobothnia
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Ostrobothnia If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Ostrobothnia
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Ostrobothnia He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Ostrobothnia
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Ostrobothnia If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Ostrobothnia
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Ostrobothnia cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ostrobothnia
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Ostrobothnia I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Ostrobothnia
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Ostrobothnia Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Ostrobothnia
