There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "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) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken T Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger T
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe T Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. T
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 T "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln T
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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 T Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) T
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) T Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl T
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly T "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin T
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole T There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen T
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge T May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous T
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) T My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford T
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) T Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) T
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) T "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi T
