In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Regions We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Regions
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Regions If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Regions
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Regions I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Regions
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Regions Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Regions
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Regions A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Regions
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Regions Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Regions "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Regions
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Regions To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Regions
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Regions Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Regions
"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) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Regions A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Regions
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Regions The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Regions
