A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Pachino He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Pachino
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "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) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Pachino When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Pachino
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Pachino "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) 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 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Pachino
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Pachino A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Pachino
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Pachino Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Pachino
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Pachino I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Pachino
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West 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 The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Pachino Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Pachino
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Pachino Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Pachino
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 I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Pachino The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Pachino
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Pachino Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Pachino
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Pachino Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Pachino
