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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson 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. I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Museums You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Museums
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Museums May you never leave your marriage alive. 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Museums
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Museums If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Museums I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Museums
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Museums Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Museums
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Museums Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Museums
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Museums A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Museums
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Museums Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Museums
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Museums "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Museums
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Museums "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Museums
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Museums "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) 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 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
