Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "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've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Santorini None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Santorini
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Santorini We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Santorini
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Santorini Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Santorini
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Santorini "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Santorini
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Santorini Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Santorini
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "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) Santorini "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Santorini
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Santorini I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Santorini
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian 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 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Santorini Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Santorini
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Santorini Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Santorini
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Santorini "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Santorini
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Santorini The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Santorini
