All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous News and Media Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "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) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire News and Media Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 News and Media
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) News and Media Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy News and Media
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what News and Media Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers News and Media The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening News and Media
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II News and Media "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President News and Media
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright News and Media The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine News and Media
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings News and Media Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) News and Media
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo News and Media
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( News and Media No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. News and Media
