"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
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grie Financial Services He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Financial Services You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Financial Services
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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-- Michel de Montaigne "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Financial Services
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Financial Services "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) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Financial Services When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Financial Services
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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-- H. L. Mencken "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Financial Services
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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-- Colin Powell A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
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other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Financial Services I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Financial Services
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
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-- Colin Wilson Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Financial Services 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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Financial Services
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Financial Services I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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