The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Photography "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Photography
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Photography The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "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) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Photography
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Photography "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) .. 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
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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Photography If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Photography
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun 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 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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) Photography He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Photography
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Photography My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Photography
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Photography A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Photography
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Photography Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Photography
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Photography The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Photography
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Photography "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Photography
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Photography "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Photography
