A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn 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. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Odorhei A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Odorhei
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Odorhei And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Odorhei
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Odorhei People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Odorhei
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Odorhei The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Odorhei
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Odorhei The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Odorhei
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Odorhei The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Odorhei
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French 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.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Odorhei Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels 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 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 Odorhei
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Odorhei There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Odorhei
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Odorhei No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Odorhei
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Odorhei Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Odorhei
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 Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. 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 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Odorhei "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Odorhei
