A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Walsall Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Walsall
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Walsall Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Walsall
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Walsall Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Walsall
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Walsall Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Walsall
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Walsall I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Walsall
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Walsall "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Walsall
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman 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 Walsall "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Walsall
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Walsall then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Walsall
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Walsall "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Walsall
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Walsall "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings 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 Walsall
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Walsall "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Walsall
