He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot K "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) K
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein K I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain K
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) K "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale K
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous K "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein K
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 K A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe K
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller K The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) K
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk K Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) K
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student K "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a K
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "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) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur K "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp K
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. K Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back K
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman K Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein K
