Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Society and Culture
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Society and Culture A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Society and Culture
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Society and Culture
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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Society and Culture 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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Society and Culture
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "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) Society and Culture "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture 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 blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Society and Culture
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Society and Culture Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Society and Culture
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Society and Culture Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Society and Culture A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Society and Culture
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Society and Culture
