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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Blackheath I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Blackheath
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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Blackheath I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "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 Blackheath
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Blackheath "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Blackheath
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Blackheath There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Blackheath
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Blackheath When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Blackheath
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Blackheath Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford 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 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Blackheath
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Blackheath "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Blackheath
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Blackheath ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Blackheath
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Blackheath A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Blackheath
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Blackheath "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Blackheath
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Blackheath The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Blackheath
