Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Localities Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Localities I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Localities
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull 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. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Localities Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Localities
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Localities Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Localities
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Localities "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Localities
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Localities We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Localities
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Localities The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Localities
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 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "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) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Localities One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Localities Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Localities
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Localities "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Localities
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Localities A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes 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 Localities
