ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Mittenwald "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Mittenwald
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Mittenwald "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Mittenwald
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Mittenwald When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Mittenwald
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Mittenwald Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Mittenwald
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Mittenwald I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Mittenwald
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Mittenwald In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Mittenwald
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.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Mittenwald Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Mittenwald
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Mittenwald "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Mittenwald
"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 Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Mittenwald "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Mittenwald
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry 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 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Mittenwald Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Mittenwald
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Mittenwald Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Mittenwald
