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In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 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 Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Guides and Directories That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Guides and Directories
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 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Guides and Directories "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Guides and Directories
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Guides and Directories The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Guides and Directories
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Guides and Directories Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Guides and Directories
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung 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 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Guides and Directories Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Guides and Directories
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Guides and Directories "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Guides and Directories
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Guides and Directories "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Guides and Directories "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Guides and Directories
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guides and Directories
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Guides and Directories "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Guides and Directories
