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I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 9 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous 9
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." 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, 9 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I 9
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 9 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 9
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson 9 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan 9
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 9 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 9
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) 9 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) 9
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 9 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 9
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 9 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. 9
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock 9 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 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats 9
Man and wife make one fool. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël 9 A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 9
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human 9 It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz 9
