"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Artists and Galleries "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Artists and Galleries
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Artists and Galleries "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Artists and Galleries
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Artists and Galleries Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Artists and Galleries
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Artists and Galleries As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Artists and Galleries
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake 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 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Artists and Galleries "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Artists and Galleries
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Artists and Galleries I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Artists and Galleries
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Artists and Galleries "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Artists and Galleries
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Artists and Galleries I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Artists and Galleries
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 Artists and Galleries A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Artists and Galleries
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per 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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Artists and Galleries Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Artists and Galleries
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Artists and Galleries 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 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Artists and Galleries
