"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke News and Media When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins News and Media
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner News and Media Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li News and Media
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant News and Media "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy News and Media
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. News and Media "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) News and Media
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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.
-- Anonymous News and Media Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson News and Media
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) News and Media "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen News and Media When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly News and Media
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman News and Media You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning News and Media
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity News and Media During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed News and Media
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u News and Media
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen News and Media Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller News and Media
