The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
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-- Darcy E. Gibbons Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Localities When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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-- Marcel Achard Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Localities
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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-- Damon Runyan Localities Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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-- Thomas Carlyle Localities Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw To teach is to learn twice.
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
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-- Mark Twain Localities Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller Localities They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Localities
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. What's new? Most of my wife. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Localities Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Localities Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
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-- Anatole France Localities
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Localities A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
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