A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Localities Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Localities
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Localities Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Localities
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Localities First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Localities
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "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) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Localities If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Localities
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Localities The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Localities
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Localities "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Localities
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Localities You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Localities
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Localities "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Localities
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Localities Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Localities
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry 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 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Localities When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Localities
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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 have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Localities Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Localities
