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"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Government Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Government Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Government
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Government I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Government
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Government May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Government
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Government It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Government "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Government
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Government It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Government
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Government "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Government
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Government "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Government
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Government Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Government
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Government It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) My other wife is beautiful. Government
