"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Ratne Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Ratne
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Ratne "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Ratne
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Ratne "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Ratne
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Ratne Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ratne
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Ratne Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Ratne
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ratne One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Ratne
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Ratne "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Ratne
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Ratne You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Ratne
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de 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 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Ratne "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Ratne
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Ratne I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Ratne
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Ratne Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 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 Ratne
