The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Estepona Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Estepona
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Estepona I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Estepona
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Estepona I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Estepona
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Estepona Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Estepona
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Estepona Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Estepona
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Estepona Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi 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 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Estepona
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Estepona These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Estepona
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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Estepona When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 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 Estepona
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Estepona "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "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) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Estepona
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Estepona Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Estepona
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Estepona "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Estepona
