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"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. 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 Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Attractions Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Attractions
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Attractions You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Attractions
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Attractions Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Attractions
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Attractions After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Attractions
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Attractions "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "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 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Attractions
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Attractions A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Attractions
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Attractions "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Attractions
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth 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 Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Attractions Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Attractions
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Attractions I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Attractions
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Attractions I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Attractions
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Attractions I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Attractions
