What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller 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 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 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victoria There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Victoria
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Victoria "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Victoria
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Victoria "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Victoria
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Victoria That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Victoria
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Victoria Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Victoria
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Victoria Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Victoria
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Victoria Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Victoria
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "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." Victoria "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Victoria
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Victoria Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Victoria
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Victoria Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Victoria
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Victoria "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Victoria
