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Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Guides and Directories "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Guides and Directories
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Guides and Directories They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Guides and Directories This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Guides and Directories Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Guides and Directories
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Guides and Directories For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Guides and Directories
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Guides and Directories Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Guides and Directories There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Guides and Directories
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Guides and Directories A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Guides and Directories
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Guides and Directories Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Guides and Directories
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Guides and Directories The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories
