I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Dovercourt Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Dovercourt
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Dovercourt The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Dovercourt
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Dovercourt "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Dovercourt
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Dovercourt Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Dovercourt
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 Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Dovercourt "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Dovercourt
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Dovercourt We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Dovercourt
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Dovercourt "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Dovercourt
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 Dovercourt I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Dovercourt
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Dovercourt The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Dovercourt
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Dovercourt Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Dovercourt
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Dovercourt If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Dovercourt
