A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Buskerud When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Buskerud
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Buskerud "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) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Buskerud
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "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 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Buskerud Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Buskerud
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Buskerud "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Buskerud
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Buskerud Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Buskerud
"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 Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Buskerud Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Buskerud
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Buskerud Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Buskerud
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Buskerud Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Buskerud
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Buskerud No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Buskerud
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Buskerud Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Buskerud
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H 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 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Buskerud I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying 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 Buskerud
