Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Running The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Running
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Running Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Running
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Running The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Running
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 "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Running I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Running
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Running "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Running
"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) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Running If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Running
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Running It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Running
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Running Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' 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 Running
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer 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 Running "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Running
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Running Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Running
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Running 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 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Running
