Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Droylsden When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Droylsden
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Droylsden You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Droylsden
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Droylsden "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Droylsden
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Droylsden "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Droylsden
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Droylsden This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Droylsden
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Droylsden A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Droylsden
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 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Droylsden "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Droylsden
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "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 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Droylsden Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Droylsden
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm .. 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 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Droylsden They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Droylsden
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Droylsden Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Droylsden Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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