When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Provinces "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Provinces
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Provinces To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Provinces
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Provinces The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Provinces
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Provinces You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Provinces
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Provinces "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Provinces
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Provinces The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Provinces
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Provinces Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Provinces
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Provinces Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland 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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Provinces
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Provinces The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Provinces
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Provinces Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Provinces
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 In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Provinces "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Provinces
