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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Roads and Highways Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Roads and Highways
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Roads and Highways "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 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Roads and Highways
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Roads and Highways When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Roads and Highways
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Roads and Highways "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Roads and Highways
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Roads and Highways Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Roads and Highways
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Roads and Highways You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Roads and Highways
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Roads and Highways "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "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) Roads and Highways
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Roads and Highways Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Roads and Highways
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Roads and Highways Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Roads and Highways
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "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) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Roads and Highways Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Roads and Highways
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "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 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Roads and Highways If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Roads and Highways
