Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "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) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Groups I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Groups
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Groups Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Groups
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Groups Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Groups
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Groups If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Groups
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Groups I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides 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 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Groups
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "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 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Groups If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Groups
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Groups Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Groups
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Groups "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Groups
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Groups "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Groups
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Groups All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Groups
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Groups Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Groups
