If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Znin He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Znin
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Znin Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Znin
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Znin "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Znin
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Znin The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Znin
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Znin All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Znin
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Znin All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Znin
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "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 "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Znin To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Znin
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Unhappy Znin The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Znin
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Znin Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Znin
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Znin If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Znin
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Znin Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Znin
