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Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ardee With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ardee
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Ardee The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Ardee
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Ardee How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Ardee
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 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 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Ardee Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Ardee
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Ardee If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Ardee
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Ardee I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Ardee
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Ardee "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Ardee
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Ardee Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Ardee
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Ardee blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Ardee blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ardee
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Ardee We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "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) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Ardee
