Round Table 70 - A social organization for men between 20 and 40.
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Brumunddal The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries 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 Brumunddal
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Brumunddal "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "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 Brumunddal
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Brumunddal Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince 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 Brumunddal
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Brumunddal Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Brumunddal
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Brumunddal When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Brumunddal
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Brumunddal Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Brumunddal
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Brumunddal The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 Brumunddal
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Brumunddal A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Brumunddal
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Brumunddal "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Brumunddal
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "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) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Brumunddal Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Brumunddal
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Brumunddal The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Brumunddal
