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Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton L "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) L
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre L Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas L
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein L A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A L
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" L "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) L
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii L Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) L
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) L "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle L
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) L Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) L
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) L "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) L
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou L The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert L
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells L "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker L
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. L Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) L
