Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "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) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Localities A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 "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." Localities
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Localities When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Localities
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Localities "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Localities
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Localities It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Localities
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Localities We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Localities
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Localities
"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) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Localities
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Localities Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Localities
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper 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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Localities Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Localities
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Localities There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Localities Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Localities
