Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D West Kirby To keep your marriage brimming
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Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf West Kirby
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White West Kirby Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "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) West Kirby
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein West Kirby "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa West Kirby
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "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) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince West Kirby Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "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, West Kirby
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel West Kirby If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "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 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe West Kirby A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- G. M. Trevelyan West Kirby
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. West Kirby "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken West Kirby
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) 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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach West Kirby To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge West Kirby
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx West Kirby "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST West Kirby
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed West Kirby "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler West Kirby
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H West Kirby "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
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