God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Ingoldmells "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Ingoldmells
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Ingoldmells There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Ingoldmells
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Ingoldmells "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Ingoldmells
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Ingoldmells Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Ingoldmells
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "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) Ingoldmells "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Ingoldmells
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Ingoldmells 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 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Ingoldmells
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Ingoldmells "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Ingoldmells
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Ingoldmells "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Ingoldmells
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ingoldmells What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Ingoldmells "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Ingoldmells
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Ingoldmells I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ingoldmells
