When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Ecology It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Ecology
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Ecology Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ecology
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Ecology The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Ecology
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Ecology Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Ecology
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ecology We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Man and wife make one fool. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Ecology
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Ecology "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Ecology
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Ecology Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Ecology
"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) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Ecology "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Ecology
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Ecology Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Ecology
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Ecology "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne 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 Ecology
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Ecology "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Ecology
