Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Darlaston Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Darlaston
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Darlaston "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Darlaston
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Darlaston "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Darlaston
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Darlaston The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Darlaston
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Darlaston The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Darlaston
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Darlaston "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Darlaston
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Darlaston Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Darlaston
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Darlaston blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Darlaston
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Darlaston 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Darlaston
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Darlaston I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Darlaston
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Darlaston Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Darlaston
