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-- Dean Acheson And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright 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 Glemsford "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Glemsford
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Glemsford With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Glemsford
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Glemsford "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Glemsford
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Glemsford A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Glemsford
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Glemsford By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Glemsford
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Glemsford You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Glemsford
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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? I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Glemsford Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Glemsford
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 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Glemsford Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Glemsford
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per 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 Glemsford A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Glemsford
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "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) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Glemsford He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Glemsford
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Glemsford "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins May you never leave your marriage alive. Glemsford
