Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Cabins "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "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) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Cabins
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) 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, Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Cabins Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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"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) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Cabins "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) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cabins Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Cabins
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Cabins 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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Cabins
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Cabins "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Cabins
"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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cabins It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Cabins
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "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') Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Cabins Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Cabins
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Cabins Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Cabins
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper 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 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Cabins Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce 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 "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Cabins
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "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 Cabins Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Cabins
