Richard Leveridge Indenture - Transcription of a legal document from 1694 between two Watlington personages for legal transfer of property.
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 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Watlington Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Watlington
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Watlington Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Watlington
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Watlington One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Watlington
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Watlington I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Watlington
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Watlington "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Watlington
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Watlington While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
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Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "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) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Watlington "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
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"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Watlington I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Watlington "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Watlington
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Watlington There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Watlington
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Watlington The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Watlington
