I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Photography You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Photography
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Photography I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman 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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Photography
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Photography Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Photography
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Photography The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Photography
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Photography "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Photography
"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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Photography "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Photography
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Photography The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Photography
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Photography Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Photography
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) 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 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Photography Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Photography
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur 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 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Photography The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Photography
"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 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Photography Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Photography
