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 Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung K The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa K
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach K I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan K
"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 If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley K The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle K
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm K Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) K
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg K "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx K
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "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) K In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux K
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin K Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke K
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull K If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history K
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) K He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem K
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde K The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous K
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard K In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton K
