Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
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-- Al Capone Personal Homepages
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Personal Homepages Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
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-- Kenny Ausubel "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Personal Homepages
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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-- Countess of Blessington Personal Homepages Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Personal Homepages
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
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-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Never eat more than you can lift.
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-- James Stephens Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
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-- Abraham Lincoln Personal Homepages
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Personal Homepages If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Facts are the enemy of truth.
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
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-- Erich Fromm Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
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-- Edward Abbey Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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-- Russell Baker Personal Homepages A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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-- G. K. Chesterton Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
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-- Anonymous You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
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-- Shelley Winters It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Personal Homepages Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Personal Homepages Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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- Antoine de Saint Exupery Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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