"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Ourense Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Ourense
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Ourense Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Ourense
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Ourense "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Ourense
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Ourense A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Ourense
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ourense Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Ourense
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Ourense If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Ourense
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ourense There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Ourense
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Ourense There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Ourense
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Ourense Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ourense
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Ourense "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Ourense
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, 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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Ourense I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Ourense
