"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Children "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Children
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Children I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Children
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Children Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Children
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Children Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Children
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Children Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Children
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Children "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Children
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Children Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Children
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Children "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Children
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "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) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside 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 Children 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 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Children
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Children "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Children
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) 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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Children 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Children
