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Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST 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
married The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Hayling Island In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hayling Island
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Hayling Island I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune 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 Hayling Island
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hayling Island Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Hayling Island
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Hayling Island We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Hayling Island
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Hayling Island Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Hayling Island
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Hayling Island What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Hayling Island
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) 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 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Hayling Island The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Hayling Island
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Hayling Island A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Hayling Island
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 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Hayling Island If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Hayling Island
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Hayling Island Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Hayling Island
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
married Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Hayling Island Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Hayling Island
