"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Castles For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Castles
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Castles Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Castles
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Castles "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Castles
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Castles Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Castles
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Castles "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) 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 "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Castles
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Castles "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Castles
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Castles Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Castles
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Castles Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "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) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Castles
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Castles Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Castles
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Castles Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Castles
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Castles "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Castles
