Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Maps and Views Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Maps and Views
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Maps and Views Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Maps and Views
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Maps and Views Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Maps and Views
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Maps and Views Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Maps and Views It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Maps and Views
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "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) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Maps and Views The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Maps and Views
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Maps and Views Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Maps and Views
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen 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 Maps and Views Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Maps and Views
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Maps and Views Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Maps and Views
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Maps and Views "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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