I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler E Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly E
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 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w E All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) E
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) E "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll E
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr 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 E Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) E
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous E Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) E
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) E We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. E
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) E I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha E
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton E "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words E
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi E 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 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur E
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller E 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 My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous E
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Man and wife make one fool. E When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde E
