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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Styles "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Styles
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Styles blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Styles
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) 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 "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Styles A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Styles
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Styles "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Styles
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Styles I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Styles
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Styles I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Styles
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Styles "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Styles
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Styles Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Styles
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Styles 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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Styles
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Styles The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Styles
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Styles Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Styles
