You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Music How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Music
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Music No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Music
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Music Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Music
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Music Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Music
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Music I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Music
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Music The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Music
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Music We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Music "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Music
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Music 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 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Music
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Music 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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Music
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Music Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Music
