Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Vercelli Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Vercelli
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Vercelli I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Vercelli
"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) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Vercelli "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Vercelli
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 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Vercelli I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Vercelli
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Vercelli Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Vercelli
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Vercelli 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" 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 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vercelli
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Vercelli Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Vercelli
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Vercelli In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Vercelli
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "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 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Vercelli Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Vercelli
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Vercelli I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Vercelli
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Vercelli "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Vercelli
