The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Complementary and Alternative The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers 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 Complementary and Alternative
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Complementary and Alternative Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Complementary and Alternative
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Complementary and Alternative Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Complementary and Alternative
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Complementary and Alternative "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Complementary and Alternative
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Complementary and Alternative It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Complementary and Alternative
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Complementary and Alternative 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 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Complementary and Alternative
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Complementary and Alternative Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Complementary and Alternative
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Complementary and Alternative And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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 Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Complementary and Alternative
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Complementary and Alternative I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Complementary and Alternative
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Complementary and Alternative I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Complementary and Alternative
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Complementary and Alternative Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Complementary and Alternative
