If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Religion "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Religion
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "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 Religion When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Religion
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Religion The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Religion
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Religion Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Religion
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Religion It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes 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 . . .
grand Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Religion
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Religion Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Religion
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 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Religion "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Religion
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Religion One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Religion
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Religion "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Religion
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all 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 The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Religion Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "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 Religion
