Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous States I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller States
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic States "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost States
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. States In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere States
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. States It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx States
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous States "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) States
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi States "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein States
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White States Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) States
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) States "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll States
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) States I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) States
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb States Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time States
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. States It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) States
