They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous 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 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Dolyna It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
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Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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-- P. J. O'Rourke "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Dolyna Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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-- Di Peatlins Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Dolyna
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Dolyna I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Dolyna
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Dolyna Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Dolyna
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Dolyna "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Dolyna
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Dolyna Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Dolyna
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Dolyna Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Dolyna
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 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Dolyna A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dolyna
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Dolyna The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Dolyna
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Dolyna A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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-- Russell Baker I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Dolyna
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 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Dolyna There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Dolyna
