A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) By County A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole By County
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual By County blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) By County
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) By County "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. By County
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell By County First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita By County
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening By County The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain By County
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) By County "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "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) By County
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung By County 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 By County
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks By County Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle By County
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov By County We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa By County
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson By County Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler 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 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein By County
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana By County "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson By County
