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Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Methley Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Methley
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 "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Methley People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Methley
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Methley No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Methley
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Methley The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Methley
"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) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Methley He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Methley
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel 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 To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Methley The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Methley
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Methley Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Methley
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Methley In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Methley
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) 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 Methley "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Methley
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Methley "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Methley
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Methley Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "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 Methley
