My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell N Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy N
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle N Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) N
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown N The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) N
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "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) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) N Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson N
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H 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 N blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson N
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 N It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy 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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) N
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel N Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) N
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw N The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William N
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) N A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. N
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield N "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson N
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson N I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r N
