Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Provinces The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Provinces
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Provinces Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Provinces
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Provinces To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Provinces
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Provinces Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Provinces
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Provinces We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Provinces
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Provinces Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Provinces
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Provinces Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Provinces
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Provinces The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) 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 Provinces "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Provinces
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Provinces I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Provinces
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Provinces Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Provinces
