What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Nievre The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Nievre
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Nievre Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Nievre
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nievre Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Nievre
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nievre The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Nievre
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nievre "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Nievre
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nievre Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nievre
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Nievre 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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Nievre
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Nievre The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nievre
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nievre Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday 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." ( Nievre
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Nievre "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) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Nievre
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nievre "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Nievre
