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To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Swiss Abroad Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Swiss Abroad
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin 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 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Swiss Abroad Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Swiss Abroad
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Swiss Abroad Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Swiss Abroad
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Swiss Abroad "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Swiss Abroad
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Swiss Abroad A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Swiss Abroad
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Swiss Abroad Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Swiss Abroad
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Swiss Abroad "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Swiss Abroad
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Swiss Abroad Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Swiss Abroad
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic 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 Swiss Abroad A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Swiss Abroad
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Swiss Abroad "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Swiss Abroad
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 Swiss Abroad Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Swiss Abroad
