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To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Music No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Music "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Music
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber 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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Music The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Music
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Music You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Music
"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 have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Music The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Music
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Music If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Music
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Music If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Music
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Music Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Music
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) 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 If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Music As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Music
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Music "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." Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Music
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Music I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Music
