"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) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Elk Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning 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 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Elk
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Elk If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Elk
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Elk Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Elk
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 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Elk You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Elk
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Elk blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Elk
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Elk LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Elk
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "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) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Elk Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Elk
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Elk "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Elk
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Elk Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Elk
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Elk We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Elk
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Elk Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Elk
