Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm What's new? Most of my wife. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Self-Catering In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Self-Catering
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Self-Catering Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Self-Catering
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Self-Catering I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Self-Catering
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Self-Catering A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Self-Catering
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Self-Catering Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Self-Catering
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Self-Catering People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Self-Catering
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Self-Catering "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Self-Catering
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Self-Catering Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Self-Catering
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) 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 "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Self-Catering Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Self-Catering
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Self-Catering Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Self-Catering
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 Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Self-Catering "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Self-Catering
