Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran O Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) O
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous O We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde O
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) O Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards O
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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) O Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason O
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) O "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) O
"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) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) O "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi O
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken 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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French O "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) O
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? .. 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 Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison O "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken O
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost O Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton O
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. O If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey O
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton O Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words O
