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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown San Marino The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan San Marino
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters San Marino Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. San Marino
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland San Marino I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 San Marino
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton 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 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) San Marino "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) San Marino You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides San Marino
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester San Marino I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West San Marino
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau San Marino I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers San Marino
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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost San Marino Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) San Marino
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy San Marino "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show San Marino Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton San Marino
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac San Marino Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller San Marino
