"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marsala For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Marsala
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Marsala Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "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) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marsala
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marsala Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Marsala
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marsala Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Marsala If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marsala
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Marsala Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Marsala
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Marsala Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Marsala
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Marsala What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marsala
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 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Marsala And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marsala
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Marsala "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Marsala
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Marsala To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Marsala
