"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Wythenshawe "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "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 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Wythenshawe
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Wythenshawe Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "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) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Wythenshawe
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Wythenshawe Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Wythenshawe
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Wythenshawe 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. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Wythenshawe
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Wythenshawe The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Wythenshawe
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John 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 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Wythenshawe 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
weakness Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Wythenshawe
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Wythenshawe Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Wythenshawe
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Wythenshawe blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Wythenshawe
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Wythenshawe 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 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Wythenshawe
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Wythenshawe By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Wythenshawe
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Wythenshawe If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Wythenshawe
