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The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Stourbridge Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Stourbridge
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Stourbridge "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Stourbridge
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Stourbridge In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Stourbridge
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Stourbridge The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Stourbridge
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 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Stourbridge "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Stourbridge
"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) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Stourbridge It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Stourbridge
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Stourbridge All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Stourbridge
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Stourbridge Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "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) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Stourbridge
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Stourbridge A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Stourbridge
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower 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. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Stourbridge "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Stourbridge
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Stourbridge Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Stourbridge
