Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Y Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Y
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Y They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Y
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Y I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Y
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Y To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins 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 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Y
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Y A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Y
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Y Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Y
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Y I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Y
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 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 We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Y The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Y
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Y Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Y
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Y Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Y
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Y "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Y
