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"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein News Agencies Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw News Agencies
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "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) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand News Agencies The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln News Agencies
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human News Agencies Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant News Agencies
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire News Agencies Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) News Agencies
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 News Agencies When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland News Agencies
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) News Agencies As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland News Agencies
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx News Agencies [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein News Agencies
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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 achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married News Agencies Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous News Agencies
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. News Agencies "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "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 It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler News Agencies
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach News Agencies "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen News Agencies
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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous News Agencies The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great News Agencies
