May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Dorgali Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Dorgali
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dorgali "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Dorgali
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Dorgali There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Dorgali
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Dorgali We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Dorgali
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "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) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Dorgali Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein 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 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Dorgali
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Dorgali Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Dorgali
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Dorgali The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Dorgali
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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Dorgali You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Dorgali
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Dorgali Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Dorgali
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Dorgali Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Dorgali
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Dorgali "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dorgali
