Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Y "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Y
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Y A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Y
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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Y I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Y
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Y Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) 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 Y
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Y Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Y
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Y "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Y
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Y The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Y
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge 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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Y Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Y
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Y The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Y
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Y All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Y
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "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) Y >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Y
