I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno 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 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Eccleston Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Eccleston
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Eccleston Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Eccleston
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Eccleston What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Eccleston
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Eccleston Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Eccleston
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Eccleston He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "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 "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Eccleston
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Eccleston When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Eccleston
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban 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 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Eccleston We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Eccleston
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Eccleston "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Eccleston
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Eccleston "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Eccleston
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Eccleston You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Eccleston
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Eccleston "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Eccleston
