Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Northwestern Switzerland Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Northwestern Switzerland
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Northwestern Switzerland "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Northwestern Switzerland
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Northwestern Switzerland "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Northwestern Switzerland
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Northwestern Switzerland "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) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Northwestern Switzerland
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Northwestern Switzerland "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Northwestern Switzerland
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Northwestern Switzerland Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Northwestern Switzerland
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Northwestern Switzerland "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Northwestern Switzerland
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen 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 Northwestern Switzerland The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Northwestern Switzerland
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Northwestern Switzerland The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Northwestern Switzerland
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Northwestern Switzerland "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Northwestern Switzerland
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) 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 "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) Northwestern Switzerland You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Northwestern Switzerland
