By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Business and Economy "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Business and Economy
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Business and Economy Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Business and Economy
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Business and Economy Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Business and Economy
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Business and Economy blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Business and Economy
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Business and Economy Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Business and Economy
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 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Business and Economy I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Business and Economy "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Business and Economy
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Business and Economy Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Business and Economy In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Business and Economy
