"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "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) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Languages Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Languages
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Languages We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Languages
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Languages Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Languages
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Languages A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Languages
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous 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 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Languages To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Languages
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Languages We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Languages
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Languages Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Languages
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Languages Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Languages
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Languages For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Languages
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates 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 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Languages A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Languages
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Languages The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Languages
