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Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bibbiena Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) May you never leave your marriage alive. Bibbiena
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Bibbiena A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Bibbiena
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "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) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Bibbiena Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Bibbiena
Man and wife make one fool. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Bibbiena Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Bibbiena
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Bibbiena "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Bibbiena
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Bibbiena "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Bibbiena
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 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bibbiena "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Bibbiena
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Bibbiena Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Bibbiena
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Bibbiena "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Bibbiena
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday 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 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 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Bibbiena The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Bibbiena
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Bibbiena "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) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Bibbiena
