Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Torrelles de Llobregat blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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, Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Torrelles de Llobregat
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Torrelles de Llobregat "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Torrelles de Llobregat
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Torrelles de Llobregat Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Torrelles de Llobregat
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Torrelles de Llobregat "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "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) Torrelles de Llobregat
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 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Torrelles de Llobregat There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Torrelles de Llobregat
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Torrelles de Llobregat We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou 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 Torrelles de Llobregat
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Torrelles de Llobregat 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 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Torrelles de Llobregat
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Torrelles de Llobregat "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Torrelles de Llobregat
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Torrelles de Llobregat Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Torrelles de Llobregat
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Torrelles de Llobregat Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Torrelles de Llobregat
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Torrelles de Llobregat It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Torrelles de Llobregat
