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Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Maps and Views "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Maps and Views
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) 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 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Maps and Views
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Maps and Views Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Maps and Views
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Maps and Views
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Maps and Views It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Maps and Views
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Maps and Views
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Maps and Views If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Maps and Views
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet 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 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Maps and Views "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Maps and Views "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Maps and Views Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Maps and Views
