"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( News and Media The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter News and Media
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce News and Media Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit News and Media
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright News and Media Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France News and Media
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele News and Media He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles News and Media
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, News and Media
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz News and Media I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story News and Media
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) News and Media
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt News and Media "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire News and Media
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick News and Media Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor News and Media
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. News and Media Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "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 A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash News and Media
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo News and Media "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) 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 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi News and Media
