All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Regions "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Regions
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Regions Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Regions
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Regions Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Regions
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Regions Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Regions
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Regions Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Regions "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Regions
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Regions >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Regions
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Regions You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Regions
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Regions "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Regions
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Regions When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Regions
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Regions My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Regions
