Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. La Palma If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx La Palma
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) La Palma That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is La Palma
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) La Palma A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. La Palma
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley La Palma Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 La Palma
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) La Palma blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln La Palma
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous La Palma "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous La Palma
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin La Palma Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason La Palma
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha La Palma Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain La Palma
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh La Palma "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) La Palma
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West La Palma If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley La Palma
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous La Palma "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove La Palma
