I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Actors Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Actors
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Actors I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Actors
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Actors "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Actors
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Actors A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Actors
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Actors The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Actors
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Actors Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Actors
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Actors Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Actors
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Actors "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Actors
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Actors It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Actors
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Actors When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Actors
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Actors Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Actors
