We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
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-- Albert Einstein If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
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-- Gloria Leonard Comics "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Comics
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
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- Irvin S. Cobb Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Comics
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
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-- Thomas Jefferson Comics Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
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-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Comics
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
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- Goethe May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Comics You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
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-- Guy Kawasaki The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Comics
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Cormac McCarthy Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Comics Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "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) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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- George Washington Carver Comics
"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 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Comics Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
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-- Charlotte Whitton If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Comics "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Comics
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
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-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Comics 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.
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intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Comics Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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forever, I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Comics The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Comics
