"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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 "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) Meuse Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Meuse
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Meuse Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Meuse
"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) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Meuse Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Meuse
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Meuse "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Meuse
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Meuse He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Meuse
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Meuse If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Meuse
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Meuse There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Meuse
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Meuse History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Meuse
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Meuse Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Meuse
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Meuse Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Meuse
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Meuse They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Meuse
