Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Specialties I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Specialties
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Specialties Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Specialties
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Specialties Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Specialties
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer 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 Specialties Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Specialties
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. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "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." Specialties When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Specialties
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Specialties Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Specialties
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Specialties "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Specialties
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "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 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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 If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Specialties Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Specialties
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Specialties No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Specialties
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Specialties A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Specialties
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Specialties "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Specialties
