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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Oppland Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Oppland
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Oppland People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Oppland
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Oppland The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Oppland
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Oppland "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "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) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oppland
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Oppland "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Oppland
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Oppland The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Oppland
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Oppland Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Oppland
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oppland "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Oppland
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Oppland The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Oppland
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Oppland No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Oppland
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Oppland Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Oppland
