"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 Cycling When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Cycling
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Cycling With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Cycling
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cycling Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Cycling
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Marriage is a rest period between romances. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Cycling Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Cycling
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Cycling Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Cycling
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Cycling "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cycling
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Cycling "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) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Cycling
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Cycling "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Cycling
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Cycling Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Cycling
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Cycling "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) .. 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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Cycling
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Cycling "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Cycling
