"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Localities Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Localities
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Localities "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Localities
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Localities The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Localities
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Localities And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Localities
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Localities The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "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 Localities
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Localities Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Localities
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Localities In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Localities
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Localities Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Localities
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Localities I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Localities
My other wife is beautiful. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Localities Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Localities
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Localities Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Localities
