A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
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Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
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-- Nancy Mitford When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sutton Coldfield "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Sutton Coldfield
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sutton Coldfield It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Sutton Coldfield The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
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-- Jean Ke I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
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-- Dave Barry Sutton Coldfield
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Sutton Coldfield If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Sutton Coldfield
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
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-- Colin Wilson Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Sutton Coldfield blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sutton Coldfield
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Sutton Coldfield A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
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-- Mark Twain The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sutton Coldfield
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
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-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
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-- W. Somerset Maugham "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Sutton Coldfield Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
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We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Sutton Coldfield I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I hate work. That's why I got married.
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Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
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-- Harold Loukes Sutton Coldfield Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
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-- Octavio Paz The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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-- Woody Allen Sutton Coldfield "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
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-- Ovid "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Sutton Coldfield
