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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Guides and Directories We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Guides and Directories
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Guides and Directories
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Guides and Directories If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Guides and Directories
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Guides and Directories We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Guides and Directories
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Guides and Directories The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Guides and Directories
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Guides and Directories blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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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 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Guides and Directories If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Guides and Directories
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Guides and Directories Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Guides and Directories
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Guides and Directories Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Guides and Directories
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar May you never leave your marriage alive. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Guides and Directories "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Guides and Directories
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Guides and Directories
