Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne R We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw R
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 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti 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 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. R Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth R
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson R Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung R
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin R In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) R
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. R The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck R
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett R blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley R
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare R Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson R
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau R Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) R
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 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein R Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa R
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S R Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons R
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar R Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon R
