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No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Arts and Entertainment Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Arts and Entertainment
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Arts and Entertainment Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment 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 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Arts and Entertainment Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Arts and Entertainment Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Arts and Entertainment An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Arts and Entertainment
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Arts and Entertainment May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Arts and Entertainment It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Arts and Entertainment
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Arts and Entertainment The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment
