"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Liechtenstein There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
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-- Giraudoux Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Liechtenstein
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 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 Liechtenstein Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Liechtenstein
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J 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 Liechtenstein If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Liechtenstein
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Liechtenstein I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "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) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln Liechtenstein
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Liechtenstein "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Liechtenstein
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Liechtenstein Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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 Liechtenstein
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Liechtenstein Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Liechtenstein
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Liechtenstein "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Liechtenstein
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Liechtenstein Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Liechtenstein
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Liechtenstein "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) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Liechtenstein
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Liechtenstein Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
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