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To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr 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? Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Event Planning Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Event Planning
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Event Planning Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev 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 Event Planning
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Event Planning Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Event Planning
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Event Planning A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Event Planning
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Event Planning Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Event Planning
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Event Planning Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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-- Anne Sullivan Event Planning
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Event Planning See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Event Planning
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Event Planning Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Event Planning Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Event Planning
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Event Planning In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Event Planning
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Event Planning "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Event Planning
