Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Business and Economy If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Business and Economy
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 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Business and Economy Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Business and Economy Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Business and Economy All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Business and Economy
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Business and Economy Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Business and Economy
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Business and Economy Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Business and Economy
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "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) Business and Economy At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette 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 Business and Economy
"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 true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Business and Economy
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Business and Economy "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe 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 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Business and Economy
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Business and Economy "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
