"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) By County In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. By County
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) By County The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett By County
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau By County The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) By County
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "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) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 By County "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy By County
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein By County In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright By County Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong By County
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) By County Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre By County
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) By County Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy By County
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) By County You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo By County
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright By County Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell By County
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley By County "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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
