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cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Attractions "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Attractions
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Attractions "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Attractions
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Attractions Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Attractions
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Attractions Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Attractions
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Attractions What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. 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 Attractions
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Attractions It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Attractions
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Attractions ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Attractions
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) 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 you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Attractions Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Attractions
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Attractions In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Attractions
My other wife is beautiful. Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Attractions Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Attractions They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Attractions
