Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer By County The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali By County
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal By County "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau By County
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha By County University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) By County
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) By County Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be By County
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd By County Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous 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 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe By County
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. By County Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "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) By County
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer What's new? Most of my wife. By County At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner By County
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen By County Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) By County
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha By County My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really By County
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) By County 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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe By County
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) By County Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed By County
