There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder M The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) M
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s M Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley M
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman M A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash M
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) M Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp M
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "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) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller M A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) M
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "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) M "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) M
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart 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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 M Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley M
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa M "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) M
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick M 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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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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 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) M "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T M
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa M The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone M
