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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) News and Media "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "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) News and Media
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers News and Media In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) News and Media
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest News and Media then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo News and Media
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland News and Media Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. News and Media
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole News and Media Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran News and Media
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther News and Media
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault News and Media "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau News and Media
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) News and Media My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) News and Media
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten News and Media Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus News and Media
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the News and Media Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings News and Media
