A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Guides and Directories "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Guides and Directories
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Guides and Directories "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Guides and Directories
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Guides and Directories
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Guides and Directories
"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." Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Guides and Directories "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Guides and Directories
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Guides and Directories Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Guides and Directories If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Guides and Directories
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Guides and Directories "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 A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Guides and Directories Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Guides and Directories
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Guides and Directories "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Guides and Directories
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Guides and Directories The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Guides and Directories
