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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Cotmanhay More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Cotmanhay
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Cotmanhay Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Cotmanhay
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Cotmanhay There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Cotmanhay
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Cotmanhay The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Cotmanhay
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Cotmanhay Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Cotmanhay
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Cotmanhay The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Cotmanhay
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Cotmanhay I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Cotmanhay
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Cotmanhay "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cotmanhay
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Cotmanhay "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cotmanhay
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cotmanhay Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Cotmanhay
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Cotmanhay Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Cotmanhay
