Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. By Region You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "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) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez By Region
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje By Region A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart By Region
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun By Region He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine By Region
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein By Region "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. By Region
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "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 By Region Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) By Region "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous 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 By Region
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday By Region Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A By Region
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson By Region He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock By Region
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "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) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) By Region The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Region
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx By Region "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) By Region
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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon By Region And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) By Region
