Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Berdyansk He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "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 Berdyansk
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Berdyansk He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Berdyansk
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Berdyansk A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Berdyansk
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Berdyansk Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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
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Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Berdyansk In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Berdyansk
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks 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 Berdyansk A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Berdyansk
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Berdyansk If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Berdyansk
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Berdyansk You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Berdyansk
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Berdyansk The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Berdyansk
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Berdyansk The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Berdyansk
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Berdyansk Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana 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 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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