It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Palmerston It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Palmerston
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Palmerston Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Palmerston
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Palmerston I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Palmerston
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Palmerston "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Palmerston
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Palmerston "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Palmerston
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Palmerston I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Palmerston
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Palmerston We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Palmerston
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Palmerston The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Palmerston
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold 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 Palmerston The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Palmerston
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Palmerston If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Palmerston
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Palmerston The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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