They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Golf "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Golf
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Golf If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Golf
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Golf "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Golf
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "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) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Golf Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Golf
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Golf "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Golf
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Golf Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Golf
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Golf The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Golf
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Golf We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein My other wife is beautiful. Golf
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre 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 If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Golf Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Golf
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Golf "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Golf
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Golf "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Golf
