English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Photographers Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Photographers
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils 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 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon 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 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Photographers "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Photographers
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Photographers If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Photographers
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Photographers "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Photographers
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Photographers "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Photographers
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Photographers Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Photographers
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Photographers When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Photographers
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes 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 "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Photographers "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Photographers
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Photographers Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Photographers
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Photographers Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Photographers
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Photographers My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Photographers
