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Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Groombridge Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Groombridge
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Groombridge Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Groombridge
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Groombridge There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Groombridge
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Groombridge I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Groombridge
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Groombridge Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Groombridge
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Groombridge Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Groombridge
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Groombridge Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Groombridge
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Groombridge A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Groombridge
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Groombridge If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Groombridge
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Groombridge In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Groombridge
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Groombridge Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Groombridge
