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 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Westergeest You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Westergeest
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Westergeest It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Westergeest
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Westergeest A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Westergeest
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Westergeest "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Westergeest
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Westergeest "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "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 Westergeest
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford 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.
-- Anonymous Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Westergeest Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Westergeest
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Westergeest I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Westergeest
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Westergeest The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Westergeest
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Westergeest In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland 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 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Westergeest
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Westergeest "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Westergeest
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Westergeest Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Westergeest
