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Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. 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 My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nelson Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Nelson
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nelson Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Nelson
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Nelson The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver 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 Nelson
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nelson The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Nelson
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Nelson It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Nelson
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Nelson .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Nelson
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Nelson If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Nelson
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Nelson In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Nelson
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nelson However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Nelson
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Nelson "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Nelson
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Nelson 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 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nelson
