With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Weddings Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 Weddings
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Weddings "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Weddings
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 Weddings "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Weddings
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Weddings The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Weddings
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weddings Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Weddings
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Weddings "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Weddings
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Weddings Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Weddings
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Weddings "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Weddings
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Weddings The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "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 only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Weddings
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Weddings "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Weddings
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "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 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Weddings blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Weddings
