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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Bray For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Bray
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Bray "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Bray
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Bray Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Bray
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Bray The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "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) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Bray
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Bray To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Bray
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 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Bray There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Bray
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Bray Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Bray
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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. Bray Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bray
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Bray "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Bray
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Bray Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Bray
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Bray Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Bray
