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Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Health I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Health
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Health "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Health May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Health
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Health "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Health
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Health
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Health All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Health
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Health The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford May you never leave your marriage alive. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Health
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Health "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Health
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "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 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Health I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Health
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Health "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Health
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Health The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Health
