Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Classical And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Classical
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Classical Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Classical
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is a rest period between romances. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Classical I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Classical
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg 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 To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Classical My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "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, If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Classical
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Classical "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Classical
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Classical "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Classical
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Classical "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Classical
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Classical The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Classical
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Classical Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Classical
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Classical The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Classical
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Classical "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Classical
