Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Man and wife make one fool. Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Skipsea The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry 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 Skipsea
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "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, A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Skipsea A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Skipsea
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Skipsea If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Skipsea
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Skipsea To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skipsea
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Skipsea It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Skipsea
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Skipsea Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Skipsea
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Skipsea A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Skipsea
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skipsea "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Skipsea
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Skipsea "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Skipsea
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Skipsea The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Skipsea
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Skipsea 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 am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Skipsea
