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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Alkham Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Alkham
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Alkham "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Alkham
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Alkham Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Alkham
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Alkham If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Alkham
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Alkham He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Alkham
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous 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 Alkham Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Alkham
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Alkham Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Alkham
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Alkham 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 "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Alkham
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Alkham 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 Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Alkham
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "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) Alkham "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Alkham
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Alkham In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Alkham
