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My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Fossil Fuels "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Fossil Fuels
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) 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 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Fossil Fuels Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Fossil Fuels
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Fossil Fuels I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Fossil Fuels
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Fossil Fuels ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Fossil Fuels
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Fossil Fuels I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Fossil Fuels
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Fossil Fuels Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Fossil Fuels
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Fossil Fuels Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Fossil Fuels
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Fossil Fuels If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Fossil Fuels
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 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Fossil Fuels "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Fossil Fuels
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Fossil Fuels All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Fossil Fuels
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Fossil Fuels "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) 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 Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Fossil Fuels
