Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Aviles Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "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 Aviles
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Aviles Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Aviles
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius 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 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Aviles "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Aviles
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Aviles If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Aviles
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Aviles A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Aviles
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Aviles Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa 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 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Aviles
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Aviles I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Aviles
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Aviles In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aviles
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Aviles I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Aviles
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Aviles A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Aviles
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Aviles If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Aviles
