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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Guides and Directories I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Guides and Directories
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Guides and Directories A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Guides and Directories
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Guides and Directories
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Guides and Directories The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Guides and Directories
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin 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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Guides and Directories Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Guides and Directories
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Guides and Directories In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Guides and Directories
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Guides and Directories
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Guides and Directories The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "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) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Guides and Directories
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Guides and Directories "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Guides and Directories
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Guides and Directories "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Guides and Directories
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "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) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Guides and Directories
