Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Yonne There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Yonne
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Yonne Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Yonne
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Yonne Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Yonne
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Yonne Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Yonne
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Yonne Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Yonne
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Yonne When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Yonne
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Yonne "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Yonne
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt 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 Yonne The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Yonne
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Yonne He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Yonne
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Yonne What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Yonne
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Yonne Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Yonne
