Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Government
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Government Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Government
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Government Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Government
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Government If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Government
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Government He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Government
"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) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Government "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Government
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Government The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Government
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Government Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Government
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Government Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Government
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Government
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Government "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Government
