The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Genealogy People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Genealogy
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "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) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Genealogy "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Genealogy
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Genealogy More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Genealogy
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Genealogy What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Genealogy
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Genealogy UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Genealogy
"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 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Genealogy Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Genealogy
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Genealogy "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Genealogy
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Genealogy Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Genealogy
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "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) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Genealogy Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Genealogy
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Genealogy "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Genealogy
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Genealogy I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Genealogy
