Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Eastern Switzerland "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Eastern Switzerland
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Eastern Switzerland If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Eastern Switzerland
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Eastern Switzerland "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Eastern Switzerland
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Eastern Switzerland Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Eastern Switzerland
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Eastern Switzerland Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Eastern Switzerland
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Eastern Switzerland The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Eastern Switzerland
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Eastern Switzerland May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. 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 Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Eastern Switzerland
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "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) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Eastern Switzerland "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Eastern Switzerland
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Eastern Switzerland "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Eastern Switzerland
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Eastern Switzerland "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Eastern Switzerland
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Eastern Switzerland Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Eastern Switzerland
