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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 fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Wear Valley blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Wear Valley
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Wear Valley May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wear Valley
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Wear Valley Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Wear Valley
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Wear Valley I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Wear Valley
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Wear Valley "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Wear Valley
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Wear Valley The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Wear Valley
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Wear Valley 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
ask th "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Wear Valley
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wear Valley Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Wear Valley
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Wear Valley Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Wear Valley
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Wear Valley Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Wear Valley
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Wear Valley "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Wear Valley
