Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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" Gisburn "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Gisburn
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen >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 Gisburn Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Gisburn
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Gisburn I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Gisburn
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Gisburn When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Gisburn
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Gisburn Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Gisburn
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac 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 Gisburn Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Gisburn
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 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Gisburn There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Gisburn
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Gisburn To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Gisburn
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Gisburn May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Gisburn
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Gisburn But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Gisburn
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Gisburn You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Gisburn
