Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Ballsbridge Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Ballsbridge
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Ballsbridge Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Ballsbridge
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Ballsbridge Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Ballsbridge
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Ballsbridge "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Ballsbridge
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Ballsbridge If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Ballsbridge
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ballsbridge We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Ballsbridge
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Ballsbridge Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Ballsbridge
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Ballsbridge "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Ballsbridge
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Ballsbridge Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Ballsbridge
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Ballsbridge "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Ballsbridge
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Ballsbridge Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Ballsbridge
