Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 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 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Maps and Views "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "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 Maps and Views
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Maps and Views
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Maps and Views To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale 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 Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Maps and Views
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Maps and Views Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Maps and Views
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Maps and Views Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Maps and Views
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Maps and Views A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Maps and Views
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Maps and Views Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Maps and Views
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Maps and Views The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Maps and Views
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Maps and Views
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Maps and Views One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton 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 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 Maps and Views
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Maps and Views Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous 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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Maps and Views
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