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"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Jurby "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Jurby
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Jurby It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Jurby
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Jurby Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Jurby
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Jurby There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Jurby
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Jurby There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Jurby
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Jurby "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Jurby
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Jurby A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Jurby
"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) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Jurby If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Jurby
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill 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 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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. Jurby I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Jurby
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Jurby I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Jurby
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West 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 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Jurby I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Jurby
