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Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Singleton "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Singleton
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Singleton In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Singleton
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Singleton I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Singleton
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Singleton When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Singleton
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Singleton "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Singleton
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers 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 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Singleton Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Singleton
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Singleton Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Singleton
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Singleton Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 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 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Singleton
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Singleton Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Singleton
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "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 Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Singleton I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Singleton
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Singleton The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Singleton
