Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Property Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Property
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Property Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Property
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein 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 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Property A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Property
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Property Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Property
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Property "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Property
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Property My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Property
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Property A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "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 Property
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Property "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Property
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Property The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Property
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Property Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Property
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 ... 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
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Property People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Property
