Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Famous Names If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Famous Names
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Famous Names Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Famous Names
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Famous Names There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Famous Names
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Famous Names 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Famous Names
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Famous Names 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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Famous Names
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Famous Names My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Famous Names
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Famous Names "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Famous Names
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Famous Names Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Famous Names
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Famous Names The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Famous Names
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Famous Names "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Famous Names
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Famous Names "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Famous Names
