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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Arts and Entertainment At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Arts and Entertainment
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Arts and Entertainment Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Arts and Entertainment
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Arts and Entertainment If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Arts and Entertainment
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Arts and Entertainment A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Arts and Entertainment
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Arts and Entertainment "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "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) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Arts and Entertainment "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Arts and Entertainment
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Arts and Entertainment Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Man and wife make one fool. Arts and Entertainment Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Arts and Entertainment
