"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Gers I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Gers
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Gers Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Gers
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Gers "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Gers
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Gers The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Gers
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Gers How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gers
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Gers In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Gers
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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 The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Gers There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Gers
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Gers "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Gers
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Gers "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Gers
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Gers Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Gers
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gers Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Gers
