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"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Running You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Running
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Running How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Running
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Running Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Running
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Running Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Running
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Running I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Running
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "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) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Running "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Running
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Running I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans 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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Running
"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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Running The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Running
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Running "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Running
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Running What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Running
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Running the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Running
