There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom 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 we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) S Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward S
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 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 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil S "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup S
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi S Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia S
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton S Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea S
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "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) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) S Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman S
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) S Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. S
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus S Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. S
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 a Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw S Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous S
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) S Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) S
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) S If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield S
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. S This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford S
