Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Republic of Adyghe Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Republic of Adyghe
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) 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 Republic of Adyghe "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Republic of Adyghe
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Republic of Adyghe My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Republic of Adyghe
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Republic of Adyghe Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Republic of Adyghe
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 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 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Republic of Adyghe Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Republic of Adyghe
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 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Republic of Adyghe You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Republic of Adyghe
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Republic of Adyghe I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Republic of Adyghe
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Republic of Adyghe "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Republic of Adyghe
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Republic of Adyghe "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) 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 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Republic of Adyghe
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Republic of Adyghe The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Republic of Adyghe
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Republic of Adyghe No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Republic of Adyghe
