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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous 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 L The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the L
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based L A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) L
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr L More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons L
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I L Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker L
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten L Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken L
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 L Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford L
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge L "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley L
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill L It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, L
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw L "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) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) L
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) L Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) L
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott L "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, Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show L
