Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Cyclades 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 "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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Cyclades
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cyclades Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Cyclades
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Cyclades "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Cyclades
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Cyclades Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Cyclades
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Cyclades A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Cyclades
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Cyclades If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Cyclades
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Cyclades When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Cyclades
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 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Cyclades Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Cyclades
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Cyclades Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Cyclades
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Cyclades "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Cyclades
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "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 Cyclades I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Cyclades
