He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich My other wife is beautiful. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Chats and Forums People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Chats and Forums
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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') "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Chats and Forums When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Chats and Forums
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Chats and Forums Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Chats and Forums
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Chats and Forums Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Chats and Forums
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Chats and Forums He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Chats and Forums
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Chats and Forums They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Chats and Forums
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Chats and Forums 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 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Chats and Forums
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Chats and Forums Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Chats and Forums
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Chats and Forums "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) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Chats and Forums
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Chats and Forums But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Chats and Forums
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Chats and Forums All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Chats and Forums
