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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Morley I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Morley
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Morley The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Morley
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Morley Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Morley
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Morley "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Morley
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Morley "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Morley
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Morley Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Morley
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Morley The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Morley
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. 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 Morley "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Morley
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx May you never leave your marriage alive. Morley You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Morley
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Morley Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Morley
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Morley Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Morley
