When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Events "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Events
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Events Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Events
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Events "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Events
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Events Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l 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 Events
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Events "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Events
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Events Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Events
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge 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 Events "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Events
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Events Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Events
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "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) 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 Events Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West 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 Events
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Events Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "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) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Events
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Events The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Events
