We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford 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 "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Weddings Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Weddings
"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) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Weddings A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Weddings
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings 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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Weddings He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Weddings
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Weddings Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Weddings
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Weddings Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Weddings
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Weddings Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "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) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Weddings
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Weddings To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu 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 Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Weddings
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Weddings Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Weddings
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "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) 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 Weddings 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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Weddings
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Weddings Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Weddings
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Weddings Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Weddings
