Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Music Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Music
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Music "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Music
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Music Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Music
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Music The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Music
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) 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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Music
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Music
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "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) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Music When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Music
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Music A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Music
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Music In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Music
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Music
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Music Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Music
