"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Complementary and Alternative The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Complementary and Alternative
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Complementary and Alternative When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Complementary and Alternative
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Complementary and Alternative Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Complementary and Alternative
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Complementary and Alternative "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Complementary and Alternative
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Complementary and Alternative Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Complementary and Alternative
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Complementary and Alternative A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Complementary and Alternative
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Complementary and Alternative I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Complementary and Alternative
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Complementary and Alternative Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Complementary and Alternative
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Complementary and Alternative Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Complementary and Alternative
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Complementary and Alternative 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 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Complementary and Alternative
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Complementary and Alternative And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Complementary and Alternative
