Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Banbury My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Banbury
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Banbury Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Banbury
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Banbury Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Banbury
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "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) Banbury A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Banbury
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Banbury Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Banbury
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous What's new? Most of my wife. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Banbury "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Banbury
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Banbury My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Banbury
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Banbury "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Banbury
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Banbury By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Banbury
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Banbury Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Banbury
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Banbury At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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 Banbury
