Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Biddenden It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Biddenden
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Biddenden 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 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Biddenden
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Biddenden In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biddenden
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Biddenden If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Biddenden
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Biddenden You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 Biddenden
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "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) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Biddenden "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "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) Biddenden
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Biddenden Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Biddenden
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Biddenden It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Biddenden
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Biddenden We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Biddenden
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Biddenden Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Biddenden
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 Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Biddenden Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Biddenden
