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Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) 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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Umbria Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Umbria
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Umbria "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Umbria
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Umbria A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Umbria
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Umbria Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Umbria
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Umbria The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Umbria
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Umbria Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Umbria
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Umbria The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Umbria
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Umbria "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Umbria
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Umbria When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Umbria
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Umbria Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Umbria
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Umbria "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, Alice in Wonderland Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Umbria
