A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Kaunas There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Kaunas
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Kaunas I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Kaunas
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kaunas "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." Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Kaunas
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Kaunas The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Kaunas The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Kaunas
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Kaunas Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Kaunas
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Kaunas A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Kaunas
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Kaunas People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Kaunas
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Kaunas I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Kaunas
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Kaunas My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Kaunas
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "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 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Kaunas "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Kaunas
