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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Expatriate Life What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Expatriate Life
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Expatriate Life If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Expatriate Life
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Unha Expatriate Life University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Expatriate Life
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Expatriate Life I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Expatriate Life
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Expatriate Life "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Expatriate Life
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Expatriate Life Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Expatriate Life
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Expatriate Life We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Expatriate Life
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Expatriate Life I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Expatriate Life
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "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) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Expatriate Life "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Expatriate Life
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 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Expatriate Life Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Expatriate Life
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Expatriate Life There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Expatriate Life
