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To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Great Yeldham Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Great Yeldham
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Great Yeldham The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great Yeldham
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Great Yeldham My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Great Yeldham
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Great Yeldham "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Great Yeldham
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson 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 Great Yeldham "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Great Yeldham
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Great Yeldham Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Great Yeldham
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Great Yeldham The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Great Yeldham
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Great Yeldham "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great Yeldham
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Great Yeldham Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Great Yeldham
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Great Yeldham A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Great Yeldham
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Great Yeldham "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Great Yeldham
