I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Event Planning "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Event Planning The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Event Planning
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Event Planning I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Event Planning
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Event Planning The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Event Planning
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Event Planning Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Event Planning
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Event Planning Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Event Planning
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Event Planning The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Event Planning
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Event Planning I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Event Planning
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Event Planning A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Event Planning
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Event Planning Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii 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 Event Planning A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Event Planning
