Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Modica Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Modica
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Modica We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Modica
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Modica Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Modica
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Modica "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Modica
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Modica If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Modica
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Modica Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Modica
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Modica A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Modica
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Anyway, 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,
ign Modica We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Modica
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Modica If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Modica
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "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) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Modica We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Modica
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 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 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Modica When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Modica
