My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Mordvin Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Mordvin
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Mordvin This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Mordvin
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Mordvin The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Mordvin
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Mordvin If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Mordvin
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Mordvin Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Mordvin
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Mordvin The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Mordvin
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Mordvin I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Mordvin
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Mordvin All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe 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 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Mordvin
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 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Mordvin "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Mordvin
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Mordvin "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Mordvin
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Mordvin There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Mordvin
