Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson By Region "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks By Region
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar 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 By Region Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The By Region
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln By Region We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh By Region
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken By Region We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle By Region
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) By Region Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon By Region
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all By Region Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard By Region
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "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) By Region "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge 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 By Region
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler By Region 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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) By Region
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley By Region
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous By Region Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed By Region
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice By Region Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire By Region
