When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Dance "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Dance
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Dance "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 If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Dance
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Dance It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Dance
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Dance Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Dance
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Dance Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Dance
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Dance Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Dance
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Dance Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Dance
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Dance The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Dance
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming 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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Dance "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Dance
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Dance Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Dance
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Dance Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Dance
