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If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. South Gloucestershire The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer 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 South Gloucestershire
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov South Gloucestershire Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon South Gloucestershire
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) South Gloucestershire A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker South Gloucestershire
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. South Gloucestershire A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire South Gloucestershire
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') South Gloucestershire The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer South Gloucestershire
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton South Gloucestershire Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. South Gloucestershire
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman South Gloucestershire If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) South Gloucestershire
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 South Gloucestershire "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx South Gloucestershire
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V South Gloucestershire There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine South Gloucestershire
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno South Gloucestershire "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe South Gloucestershire
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) 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 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show South Gloucestershire A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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