To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Relationships A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Relationships
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Relationships Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Relationships
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Relationships Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Relationships
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Relationships Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Relationships
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Relationships blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Relationships
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Relationships A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Relationships
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. 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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Relationships He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Relationships
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Relationships One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Relationships
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Relationships Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Relationships
"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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar 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 Relationships The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Relationships
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Relationships We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Relationships
