Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Granollers "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Granollers
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Granollers My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Granollers
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Granollers Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Granollers
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Granollers And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Granollers
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Granollers There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Granollers
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Granollers A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Granollers
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Granollers For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Granollers
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Granollers "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 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Granollers
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 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Granollers Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Granollers
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Granollers If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Granollers
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran 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 Granollers Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Granollers
