I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Man and wife make one fool. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Irchester He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "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) Irchester
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Irchester Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Irchester
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Irchester A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Irchester
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Irchester In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Irchester
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "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) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Irchester "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Irchester
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Irchester There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
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-- Madeleine L'Engle Irchester
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Irchester If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Irchester
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Irchester Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson 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? We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Irchester
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Irchester "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Irchester
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Irchester Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Irchester
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Irchester Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Irchester
