In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hurst Green The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Hurst Green
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "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 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Hurst Green If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Hurst Green
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Hurst Green An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Hurst Green
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Hurst Green Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Hurst Green
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Hurst Green All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Hurst Green
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Hurst Green "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Hurst Green
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Hurst Green This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Hurst Green
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Hurst Green "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Hurst Green
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Hurst Green If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Hurst Green
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 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Hurst Green There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Hurst Green
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Hurst Green Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Hurst Green
