Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce By Region 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) By Region
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) By Region The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) By Region
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl By Region Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire By Region
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. By Region Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings By Region
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown By Region If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) By Region
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich By Region A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Region
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait By Region It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown By Region
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca By Region There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) 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 By Region
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie By Region "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, "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer By Region
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln By Region Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr By Region
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u By Region "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. By Region
