Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) O Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert O
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "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) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot O Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) 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 O
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) O The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb O
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) O A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous O
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "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) O If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers O
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "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) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman O I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all 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 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte O
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 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright O "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per O
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo O If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes O
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) O He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong O
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) O "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 O
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 O your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) O
