I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Siedlce Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Siedlce
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Siedlce Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Siedlce
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) 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 diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Siedlce Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Siedlce
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Siedlce Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Siedlce
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Siedlce In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Siedlce
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Siedlce The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Siedlce
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Siedlce In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Siedlce
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Siedlce History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Siedlce
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Siedlce "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Siedlce
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Siedlce That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Siedlce
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Siedlce "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Siedlce
