"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Z "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) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Z
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Z It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Z
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Z "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Z
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Z Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Z
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Z Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Z
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Z Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Z
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Z "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Z
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Z When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Z
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Z "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Z
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Z The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Z
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Z It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Z
