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May you never leave your marriage alive. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Oxenhope "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oxenhope
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Oxenhope Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan My other wife is beautiful. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Oxenhope
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Oxenhope Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Oxenhope
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Oxenhope 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 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Oxenhope
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Oxenhope "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Oxenhope
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Oxenhope "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 Oxenhope
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Oxenhope Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oxenhope
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Oxenhope Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Oxenhope
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) 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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Oxenhope All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Oxenhope
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Oxenhope Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Oxenhope
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Oxenhope Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Oxenhope
