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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Society and Culture "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "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) Society and Culture
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Society and Culture
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 In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Society and Culture
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Society and Culture "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"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 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Society and Culture A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Society and Culture
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Society and Culture
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Society and Culture Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Society and Culture
