Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire News and Media A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) News and Media
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. News and Media Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell News and Media
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. News and Media The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media
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 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle News and Media For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 News and Media
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford News and Media To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap 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 News and Media
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock News and Media "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx News and Media
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. News and Media Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne News and Media
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi News and Media It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison News and Media
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 Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe News and Media Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld News and Media
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller News and Media The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" News and Media
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
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