Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Badia A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Badia
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Badia "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Badia
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Badia Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Badia
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Badia I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Badia
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Badia Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Badia
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Badia Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Badia
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Badia I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Badia
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Badia Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Badia
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Badia "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Badia
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Badia Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Badia
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Badia Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Badia
