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Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Welton To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Welton
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Welton "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Welton
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Welton If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Welton
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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-- English proverb Welton I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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-- Henry James Welton
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Welton It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Welton
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Welton A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Welton
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Welton A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Welton The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Welton
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
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Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "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) Welton A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Welton
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Welton 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 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Welton
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Welton Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Welton
