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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 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "... 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) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Guides and Directories
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Guides and Directories There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Guides and Directories
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Guides and Directories
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Guides and Directories For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Guides and Directories
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Guides and Directories Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Guides and Directories
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Guides and Directories "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Guides and Directories
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Guides and Directories
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Guides and Directories If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Guides and Directories
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Guides and Directories 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 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Guides and Directories
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Guides and Directories For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Guides and Directories
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories 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 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 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories
