"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White By Region Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) By Region
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? By Region Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol By Region
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein By Region "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell By Region
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover By Region We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon By Region
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay By Region 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 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm By Region
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana By Region A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) By Region
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley By Region Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley By Region
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 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) By Region I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan By Region
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) 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 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J By Region May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 By Region
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 By Region We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson By Region
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi By Region 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 blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. By Region
