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It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje 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 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) S The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower S
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith S Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) S
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) S If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin S
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson S A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud S
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry S The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) S
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown S Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show S
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson S "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of S
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou S Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) S
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) S The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley S
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Man and wife make one fool. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch S Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung S
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi S Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain S
