Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale 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 Folk There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Folk
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Folk In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Folk
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke My other wife is beautiful. Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Folk Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual 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 Folk
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Folk A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Folk
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Folk A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Folk
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Folk The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Folk
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Folk You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Folk
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Folk I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Folk
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 Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Folk "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Folk
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Folk How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Folk
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Folk Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Folk
