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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "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) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show News and Media
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet News and Media What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde News and Media
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin 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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen News and Media Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) News and Media
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg News and Media May you never leave your marriage alive. Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov News and Media
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) News and Media A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 News and Media
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant News and Media Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright 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. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) News and Media
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning News and Media I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill News and Media
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous News and Media
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller News and Media The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson News and Media
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov News and Media Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi News and Media
