Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Appraisers There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Appraisers
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Appraisers I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Appraisers
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Appraisers We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Appraisers
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Appraisers Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Appraisers
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Appraisers "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Appraisers
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Appraisers Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Appraisers
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Appraisers "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Appraisers
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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Appraisers Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Appraisers
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Appraisers The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Appraisers
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Appraisers "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Appraisers
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Appraisers I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Appraisers
