Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Kirovohrad blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Kirovohrad
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kirovohrad Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Kirovohrad
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Kirovohrad "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Kirovohrad
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Kirovohrad Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Kirovohrad
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Kirovohrad I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Kirovohrad
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Kirovohrad The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Kirovohrad
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Kirovohrad I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz 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 Kirovohrad
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Kirovohrad "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Kirovohrad
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Kirovohrad Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Kirovohrad
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Kirovohrad The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Kirovohrad
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "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) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Kirovohrad I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Kirovohrad
