"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Maps and Views Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Maps and Views
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Maps and Views The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Maps and Views
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Maps and Views I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Maps and Views
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder 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, The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Maps and Views "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Maps and Views Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Maps and Views
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Maps and Views Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Maps and Views
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Maps and Views The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Man and wife make one fool. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Maps and Views
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Maps and Views If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Maps and Views
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Maps and Views A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
"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) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 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 Maps and Views America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Maps and Views
