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I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "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 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Abridge One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Abridge
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Abridge "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Abridge
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Abridge "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Abridge
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Abridge Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Abridge
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Abridge "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Abridge
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Abridge When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Abridge
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 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Abridge Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Abridge
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Abridge Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Abridge
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Abridge The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Abridge
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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
ha The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Abridge I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Abridge
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Abridge The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Abridge
