Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Pensions Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Pensions
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Pensions The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Pensions
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 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Pensions "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Pensions
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pensions I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Pensions
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Pensions We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Pensions
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Pensions If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Pensions
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Pensions "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Pensions
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Pensions Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Pensions
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Pensions The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Pensions
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Pensions "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Pensions
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Pensions A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Pensions
