Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. 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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Transportation Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Transportation
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Transportation He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Transportation
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "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) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Transportation We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Transportation
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Transportation
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Transportation "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Transportation
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Transportation To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Transportation
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Transportation To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Transportation
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Transportation Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Transportation
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Transportation "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Transportation
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Transportation When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Transportation
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Transportation Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Transportation
