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If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner 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 God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. May you never leave your marriage alive. Herefordshire Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Herefordshire
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Herefordshire It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Herefordshire
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Herefordshire 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 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Herefordshire
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Herefordshire A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Herefordshire
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Herefordshire My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Herefordshire
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Herefordshire "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Herefordshire
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Herefordshire If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Herefordshire
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Herefordshire I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Herefordshire
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Herefordshire The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Herefordshire
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Herefordshire You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Herefordshire
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Herefordshire "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Herefordshire
