Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Huntingdonshire District The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Huntingdonshire District
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "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) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Huntingdonshire District Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Huntingdonshire District
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Huntingdonshire District "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Huntingdonshire District
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "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) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Huntingdonshire District And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Huntingdonshire District
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Huntingdonshire District I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Huntingdonshire District
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Huntingdonshire District You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Huntingdonshire District
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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 You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Huntingdonshire District To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Huntingdonshire District All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Huntingdonshire District
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Huntingdonshire District I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Huntingdonshire District
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Huntingdonshire District Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Huntingdonshire District
Marriage is a rest period between romances. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Huntingdonshire District Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Huntingdonshire District
