Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Ranelagh "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Ranelagh
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Ranelagh Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Ranelagh
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Ranelagh It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Ranelagh
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "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) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Ranelagh 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 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Ranelagh
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ranelagh "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Ranelagh
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Ranelagh Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Ranelagh
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Ranelagh May you never leave your marriage alive. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Ranelagh
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Ranelagh A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ranelagh
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Ranelagh The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Ranelagh
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Ranelagh "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Ranelagh
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Ranelagh "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "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) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Ranelagh
