The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Snizhne Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Snizhne
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Snizhne May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Snizhne
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Snizhne To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Snizhne
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Snizhne Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Snizhne
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Snizhne He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Snizhne
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Snizhne "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Snizhne
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Snizhne No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Snizhne
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "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) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Snizhne "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Snizhne
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Snizhne Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Snizhne
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Snizhne "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Snizhne
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Snizhne What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Snizhne
