Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Inspections Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Inspections
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Inspections I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Inspections
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Inspections It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Inspections
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Inspections Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Inspections
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Inspections There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Inspections
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Marriage is a rest period between romances. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Inspections "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Inspections
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Inspections "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Inspections
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Inspections He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Inspections
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Inspections I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Inspections
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Inspections You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Inspections
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Inspections "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
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