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I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Polignano a Mare The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Polignano a Mare
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Polignano a Mare After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 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 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Polignano a Mare
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Polignano a Mare Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Polignano a Mare
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Polignano a Mare Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Polignano a Mare
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Polignano a Mare Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Polignano a Mare
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Polignano a Mare If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Polignano a Mare
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Polignano a Mare "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Polignano a Mare
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Polignano a Mare Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Polignano a Mare
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Polignano a Mare The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein 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 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Polignano a Mare
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Polignano a Mare I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Polignano a Mare
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Polignano a Mare We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Polignano a Mare
