Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Flowers and Gifts I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Flowers and Gifts
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Flowers and Gifts I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 Flowers and Gifts
"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) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Flowers and Gifts They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Flowers and Gifts
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Flowers and Gifts Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Flowers and Gifts
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Flowers and Gifts One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Flowers and Gifts
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Flowers and Gifts "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Flowers and Gifts
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Flowers and Gifts "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Flowers and Gifts
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Flowers and Gifts A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Flowers and Gifts
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Flowers and Gifts The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Flowers and Gifts
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 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 Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Flowers and Gifts Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Flowers and Gifts
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Flowers and Gifts The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Flowers and Gifts
