In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "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) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. L "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) L
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa L Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) L
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it L "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) L
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson L "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama L
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life L cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields L
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) L To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire L
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal L My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. L
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken 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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France L Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem L
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower L In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph L
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara L Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. L
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) L Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken L
