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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Perton I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Perton
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Perton "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Perton
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Perton Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Perton
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "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) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker 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) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Perton "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll My other wife is beautiful. Perton
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "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) 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 Perton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Perton
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Perton We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Perton
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Perton "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) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed 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 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Perton The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Perton
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Perton Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Perton
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perton If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Perton
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Perton Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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