Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Photography "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Photography
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Photography 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 "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Photography
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Photography Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Photography
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Photography The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photography
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis 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 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Photography Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Photography
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Photography Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Photography Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Photography
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Photography UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Photography
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Photography A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Photography
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Photography "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Photography
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Photography "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Photography
