"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Events Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce What's new? Most of my wife. 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 Events
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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 An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Events "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Events
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Events It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Events
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Events 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Events
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Events "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran 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 Events
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Events All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Events
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Events Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Events
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Events Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Events
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Events "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Events
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen 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 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Events Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Events
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Events When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Events
