Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Bilgoraj One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bilgoraj
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Bilgoraj Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Bilgoraj
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Bilgoraj Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic 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 Bilgoraj
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Man and wife make one fool. Bilgoraj Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Bilgoraj
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bilgoraj "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Bilgoraj
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Bilgoraj "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Bilgoraj
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "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) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Bilgoraj Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Bilgoraj
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Bilgoraj "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Bilgoraj
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Bilgoraj "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Bilgoraj
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Bilgoraj "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Bilgoraj
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Bilgoraj If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Bilgoraj
