Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
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-- Bette Davis Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Legal Services Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
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-- Herman Melville Legal Services He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Legal Services
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
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-- Alexander Pope Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
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-- Russell Baker Legal Services "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
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-- Virginia Woolf Legal Services The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- H. L. Mencken Legal Services There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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Man and wife make one fool. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- Virginia Woolf A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Legal Services I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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- Sir Winston Churchill "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Count your age with friends but not with years.
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Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Legal Services Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Legal Services Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O 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 It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Legal Services
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "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) Legal Services "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Legal Services
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Legal Services At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
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-- Maurice Maeterlink "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Legal Services The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 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.
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