Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Q Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Q
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Q "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Q
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Q Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Q
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Q "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Q
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Q Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Q
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod 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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Q blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Q
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Q "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Q Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Q
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Q To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Q
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Q "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Q
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Q "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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