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Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "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 Guides I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Guides
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
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-- Anonymous "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Guides "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Guides Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
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"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
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-- Dick Martin I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Guides Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Guides
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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-- George Santayana "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Guides "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Guides
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
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-- Jerry Seinfeld I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
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- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
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-- Chinese Proverb Guides Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Guides
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Guides "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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-- Marcus Aurelius Guides
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Guides Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig ...the fog is rising.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
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chara I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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