"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Lydiate You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Lydiate
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lydiate "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lydiate
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige 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 Lydiate "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Lydiate
.. 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Lydiate I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Lydiate
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Lydiate Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Lydiate
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Lydiate The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Lydiate
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Lydiate I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Lydiate
What's new? Most of my wife. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Lydiate Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Lydiate
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Spinster: A bachelor's wife. If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Lydiate I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Lydiate
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Lydiate We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Lydiate
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Lydiate Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Lydiate
