I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Arts and Entertainment
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 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 Arts and Entertainment One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Arts and Entertainment My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Arts and Entertainment
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Arts and Entertainment "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley 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) Arts and Entertainment 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 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) 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 There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Arts and Entertainment An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Arts and Entertainment
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment 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 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Arts and Entertainment
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Arts and Entertainment My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Arts and Entertainment There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Arts and Entertainment
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford 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." ( Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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 Arts and Entertainment "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
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to that would be Arts and Entertainment
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Arts and Entertainment A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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-- F. Emerson Andrews Arts and Entertainment
