The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Awards and Trophies A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Awards and Trophies
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Awards and Trophies The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous 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 Awards and Trophies
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Awards and Trophies Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Awards and Trophies
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Awards and Trophies Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Awards and Trophies
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 I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Awards and Trophies "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Awards and Trophies
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 Awards and Trophies I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry 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 "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 Awards and Trophies
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Awards and Trophies I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Awards and Trophies
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Awards and Trophies There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Awards and Trophies
My other wife is beautiful. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Awards and Trophies Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Awards and Trophies
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Awards and Trophies "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards and Trophies
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Awards and Trophies It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Awards and Trophies
