Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r 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 A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Reykjanes "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Reykjanes
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Reykjanes "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Reykjanes
"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) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Reykjanes The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Reykjanes
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Reykjanes The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Reykjanes
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 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Reykjanes "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reykjanes
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reykjanes A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Reykjanes
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Reykjanes There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Reykjanes
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Reykjanes Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Reykjanes
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Reykjanes "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Reykjanes
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Reykjanes "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Reykjanes
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio 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 Reykjanes A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Reykjanes
