Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Society and Culture "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu 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 "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Society and Culture An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Society and Culture If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Society and Culture
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 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Society and Culture An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Society and Culture
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture "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) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche .. 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
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Society and Culture "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Society and Culture
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Society and Culture "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Society and Culture
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Society and Culture I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Society and Culture
